Unleadership - The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts
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| Verlag | De Gruyter |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 193 |
| Format | 24 cm |
| Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice of Leadership and Its Development 6 |
| ISBN-10 | 3110767325 |
| EAN | 9783110767322 |
| Bestell-Nr | 11076732A |
Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis light up these differences. This book delves deeper, exploring these leaderly acts and practices more fully and beyond extraordinary events. The authors describe these as "unleadership", a term defined in this book as a set of acts and practices that are undertaken in a spirit of spontaneity and generosity for social good.
Four dimensions of unleadership are identified in this book: paying it forward, living with the unknown, catching the wave, and confident connecting and collaborating. Unleadership exposes the potential that is unleashed when members of the community discover their own power to act and reclaim what they have delegated to their leaders.
Based on extensive re search, the authors highlight the flourishing of alternative forms of leading that encourage rethinking ideas of leadership and followership. They provide practical guidance to organisations and practitioners for enriching their leaderly capacity and cultivating unleadership practices to co-exist with and complement leadership practices.
Unleadership is an invaluable resource for leaders and managers in public and private organisations as well as students of leadership and organisational development.
Rezension:
"If you prefer being engaged at work, alert to what's going on, ready to cooperate with others, willing to take initiative and supportive of others in doing so - this book is about you. If you doubt that everything depends on leaders, and if you laugh at the idea that anyone who is not a leader must be a follower, this book is for you. As the authors so rightly say, Unleadership is a state of mind liberated from those silly ideas, paying attention to how good work really gets done. This is a book for the free, backed up by careful scholarship, real-life examples and practical tips." --Professor Jonathan Gosling, Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Exeter Business School