Leading in Turbulent Times: Lessons Learnt and Implications for the Future

by Peter Lorange

Overview

For much of his business life, Peter Lorange has had three careers running in parallel - as a business academic leading some of the world's most important business schools, as the head of a shipping company and as a board member for several multinational companies. As a result, he has seen leadership from all angles, inside and out. In this book, Peter shares what he has learnt about leadership during turbulent times and, in particular, the key insights that emerged from some of the most challenging moments in his career. Drawing on his own experiences and those of other CEOs interviewed especially for this book, Peter identifies the four leadership characteristics essential in turbulent times, and the three leadership tasks that are critical to an organization under stress. He identifies the type of organization that leaders must create in order to meet the challenges they face today, and explores what it means to be the person sitting where the buck stops. Peter describes how he is bucking the trend and reinventing the business school model at a time when many organizations are keeping their heads down and hoping for the global situation to improve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857243676
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	12/16/2010
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword ix

1 Introduction 1

2 Nine Failures, Nine Lessons 21

3 Four Key Leadership Characteristics - And the Dilemmas They Bring 43

4 Three Critical Leadership Tasks 75

5 Two Sides: The Talking Organization 101

6 Two Sides: Lonely at the Top? 123

7 Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is 151

References 173