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When arch-rivals IBM and Apple forged an unprecedented partnership to build and distribute a computer operating system for worldwide use, these two industrial giants stepped into the Connective Era. In this thought-provoking book, Jean Lipman-Blumen, world-renowned consultant and organizational sociologist, explores this challenging new environment, and sets forth an innovative style for future leadership.She offers a nine-step strategy for connective leaders in politics and government, business and industry, education and religion'with examples from Wall Street to the Warsaw Pact, from Gorbachev to Gandhi. She demonstrates how to move beyond competition to balance the two antithetical forces that will define our future success: interdepAndence and diversity.Based on extensive analysis of the leadership styles of more than 5,000 leaders and managers worldwide, Lipman-Blumen has developed a way for leaders to flourish under the new demands of interorganizational relationships, joint ventures, and partnerships.

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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100787902438

ISBN-139780787902438

eBay Product ID (ePID)864137

Product Key Features

Number of Pages401 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameConnective Edge : Leading in an Interdependent World

Publication Year1996

SubjectLeadership, General, Management

TypeNot Available

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics, Référence

AuthorJean Lipman-Blumen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight25 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN96-012800

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Quite simply, the book is a masterpiece. . . . Not since James McGregor Burns's book, Leadership, have I read a work that moves so easily from one social system to another." --Warren Bennis, founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California and author of Why Leaders Can't Lead and An Invented Life "Finally...a brilliant, readable, instructive and path-breaking book on leadership that does not grotesquely oversimplify this paramount task/job in society. Dare I say it? Jean Lipman-Blumen's rich, magisterial The Connective Edge is a page turner!" --Tom Peters

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal303.3/4

Intended AudienceTrade

Lc Classification NumberHd57.7.L57 1996

Table of ContentPart One: The Changing Dynamics of Leadership 1. New World, New Leadership: A Fundamental Shift 2. Why Are We So Hooked on Leaders Anyway? The Psychological and Existential Foundations of Leadership 3. American Leadership: Understanding Our National Addiction to Individualism, Cooperation, and Authoritarianism 4. A New Era: Intimations of New Leadership Part Two: The Connective Leadership Model 5. Mapping Leadership Styles: Direct, Relational and Instrumental 6. The Direct Routes to Success: The Intrinsic, Competitive, and Power Styles 7. The Relational Path to Leadership: The Collaborative, Contributory, and Vicarious Styles 8. The Instrumental Road Less Travelled: The Personal, Social, and Entrusting Styles 9. Connective Leadershiup: More than the Sum of its Parts Part Three: Bridging to the Stage 3 World 10. The Collective Organization: Matching Leadership and Organizational Styles 11. Women Leaders: An Oxymoron? Or Does GAnder Make a Difference? 12. Connective Leadership and the Serious Issues: Life, Death, and the Search for Meaning

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The Connective Edge : Leading in an Interdependent World by Jean Lipman-Blumen (1996, Hardcover)