领导性质NATURE OF LEADERSHIP
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作者： B. Joseph White等著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2006-10-1字数：版次： 1页数： 200印刷时间： 2006/10/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780814408940包装： 精装内容简介
The animal metaphors for business seem to stick--after elephants that can't dance come mammalian and reptilian leaders. White, now president of the University of Illinois (with a nearly $4 billion annual budget), ponders four quadrants of leadership competencies, giving examples from his work life at Cummins Engine and corporate directorships. This is an important topic, considering that 30-50 percent of CEOs are prematurely ousted. He builds a pyramid with to-be-expected qualities--ability, character, integrity, and the like--as the foundation. Reptilian (read critical, detached, analytical) and mammalian (or nurturing, engaged, emotional) traits balance each other, topped by the five secret ingredients--innovation, risk taking, appetite for talent, helicopter view, and sparkle factor. Simplistic almost to a fault, all these characteristics, he claims, are critical to the making of today's and tomorrow's leaders; the author devotes his last chapter to the art of becoming. Yet with many acclaimed U.S. CEOs close to retirement (or already there, e.g., Jack Welch, Lawrence Cassidy), the question then becomes, where have all the leaders gone? Appended: "The Nature of Your Leadership." Barbara Jacobs
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作者简介
B．Joseph Wbite iS President of the University of Illinois．He was previously interim president of the University of Michigan and dean of its top．ranked business school for ten years．He has been a business executive and served as director or trustee of numer-OUS large companies and several healthcare organizations．He iS based in Urbana，Illinois．
目录
Foreword by C．K．Prahalad
1 Become a Leader，a Better Leader，a Great Leader
2The Reptiles versus the Mammals
3The Leadership Pyramid
4Reptilian Excellence
5 Mammalian Excellence
6The Secret of Becoming a Great Leader
7Challenge Yourself：Become a Great Leader
Appendix：The“Nature of Your Leadership”Survey
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
