
The Infinite Leader
Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership
Kogan Page Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2020
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-78966-651-9 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER:
Independent Press Awards 2021 - Leadership
Bestselling and award-winning author duo Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are calling it out. In The Infinite Leader, they argue that the spectacular leadership failures that we have witnessed in recent history, stretching across business, community life and politics, can be explained by a lack of balance.
Having spent centuries perfecting processes and systems to maximize productivity and being indicted to the shrine of numbers, KPI's and financial forecasting, we have to admit, there are very few examples of sustainable and inspirational leadership figures out there. By over-relying on the hard stuff, we have disregarded whole dimensions of values that are desperately needed when trying to engage communities of people towards a common goal.
The Infinite Leader
is a roadmap to introducing balance back into organizations. You can adapt your stance to the infinite possibilities facing you as a leader, and balance the main quadrants of the rational, emotional, spiritual and physical leader, to deliver sustainable leadership with integrity. Business is still about people - people operate across paradoxes and opposing forces, in a world that confounds these influences. Leaders need to continuously juggle and neutralize these to succeed. Be what your people need you to be and learn what they don't teach you in business schools; remain analytical and numbers-focused when needed, but also bring your heart, person and integrity to leadership.
Reviews / Votes
"Now more than ever the world needs leaders who can lead businesses without limits. We don't need leaders who just follow the crowd locked in groupthink. The Infinite Leader shows that type of real leadership needed on the rocky road ahead."More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78966-651-9 (9781789666519)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Author
Chris Lewis is founder of Team LEWIS, a global marketing consultancy that campaigns for commercial and community causes. Its profits support the largest employee-directed foundation in the world. He is the author of Too Fast to Think, co-author of award-winning The Leadership Lab and The Infinite Leader, all published by Kogan Page. He is based in London, UK.
Dr Pippa Malmgren is a trend spotter who advises investors and governments about economic policy. She anticipated the Financial Crisis in 2007, the Chinese slowdown, Brexit, Trump and inflation returning. She has featured on the BBC, Bloomberg, The Financial Times and The Economist.
Content
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- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Chapter - 01: The End;
- Chapter - 02: Circles and Zeros;
- Chapter - 03: Existing Leadership Models;
- Chapter - 04: Introducing 'Zero' Models;
- Chapter - 05: Zero State Thinking;
- Chapter - 06: Zeronomics;
- Chapter - 07: Zero Ego, Zero Gender;
- Chapter - 08: Zero Education;
- Chapter - 09: Where this Thinking Takes Us;
- Chapter - 10: Conclusions