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The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest
Mary Jo Hatch
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Description for The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest
Hardcover. * A text on leadership giving insight into the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. * Represents a broad spectrum of organisations, including Volkswagen, Eni. , Xerox, Dell, Whirlpool, Bell Atlantic, British Airways, USAA, Compaq, and Nike. Num Pages: 184 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 187 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with these famous CEOs, Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski demonstrate how business leaders today use aesthetics, specifically storytelling, dramatizing and mythmaking, to lead their companies successfully. They look at how they inspire organizations through their creativity, virtue and faith, and thus show the faces of the artist and priest alongside the technical and rational face of the manager.
The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with these famous CEOs, Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski demonstrate how business leaders today use aesthetics, specifically storytelling, dramatizing and mythmaking, to lead their companies successfully. They look at how they inspire organizations through their creativity, virtue and faith, and thus show the faces of the artist and priest alongside the technical and rational face of the manager.
The ... Read more features clear and accessible explanations of the aesthetic philosophy of management: as applied to the concepts of creativity, imagination, courage, virtue, inspiration, faith and ethics. It presents techniques for developing these qualities as an essential part of leadership; together with the capacity to communicate them to others. Aesthetic leadership practices are linked to organizational culture, change, vision, values and identity. In this way, the book encourages students and executives to align the creative and spiritual aspects of business with their technical training and practice.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405122597
SKU
V9781405122597
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About Mary Jo Hatch
Mary Jo Hatch is C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce at the McIntyre School of Commerce, University of Virginia, and Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She is the author of Organization Theory; Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives (1997) and co-editor of The Expressive Organization (2000). Monika Kostera has published several books ... Read more
Reviews for The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest
"Can business leaders today assume truly heroic standing, beyond the hype? This wonderfully stimulating book offers the most sophisticated and enlightening answer to this question that I have come across to date. Far from revealing the secrets of great business leaders, this book shows that as managers, as artists and even as prophets, such leaders learn to live with ambiguity ... Read more