The Leadership Lifecycle: Matching Leaders to Evolving Organizations

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Springer, Nov 18, 2002 - Business & Economics - 178 pages
This book presents a model of the leadership process that identifies which factors create an effective leader at different points in the organisation's lifecycle and which forces act as moderators to that effectiveness. The dimension of how the dynamics of leadership play out over time is what distinguishes this work from previous books on leadership.

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Contents

Chapter 1 The Leadership Lifecycle
1
Chapter 2 The Creator
18
Chapter 3 The Accelerator
32
Chapter 4 The Sustainer
48
Chapter 5 The Transformer
66
Chapter 6 The Terminator
84
Chapter 7 Leadership Transitions
95
Chapter 8 Spanning Roles
104
The Walt Disney Company
127
Marks Spencer
147
Chapter 11 Matching Leaders to Evolving Organizations
163
Index
173
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ANDREW WARD is a member of the management faculty of the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Ward's research centers on leadership, corporate governance and the role and challenges of chief executive officers, and his work has been featured in numerous publications including Business Week, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Directorship, Directors and Boards, Corporate Board Member and Investor's Business Daily, and he is frequently quoted in the media on leadership, governance and CEO succession issues. A native of the United Kingdom, Ward received his B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Surrey, and holds an MBA from Emory's Goizueta Business School and a Ph.D. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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