Leadership Lessons from Compelling Contexts

By: Birgit Schyns (Editor), Yair Berson (Editor), Susanne Braun (Editor), Claudia Peus (Editor)

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Hardcover | 11 March 2016

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Research into leadership often focuses on standard business organizations. We know little about these proposed models apply to leadership in other contexts, such as the military, sports, film and television industries or religious organizations. Here, we deliberately reverse the idea of investigating how standard models fit into non-standard contexts; we want to know what leadership lessons can be drawn from compelling yet understudied contexts. Research and theory from four types of contexts are presented: Those characterized by high levels of competition, such as sport, those in which the generation of innovation and creativity is crucial e.g. film and television, high-risk contexts such as the military and aviation, and those where fostering the well-being of others is at the core. To summarize, as much as we can learn about leadership from standard business organizations and apply it to unusual contexts, the same applies the other way round: Idiosyncrasies of compelling contexts teach us fundamental lessons about leadership which are also applicable to other settings.

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Editors Peus, Braun, and Schyns present readers with a collection of academic and professional perspectives on leadership and management in a variety of contexts. The editors have organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in five parts devoted to sports and competition, high-risk leadership situations, creativity and innovation in leadership, care and community, and leadership lessons from compelling contexts. Claudia Peus is a faculty member of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Susanne Braun is a faculty member of Durham University Business School in the UK and Ludwig Maximillian University in Germany. Birgit Schyns is a faculty member of Durham University Business School. -- Annotation * (protoview.com) *

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