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Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes.

Table of Contents
The Journey from Novice to Master Manager.

Achieving High Performance: A Paradoxical View of Excellence.

Mastering the Contradictions of Organizational Life.

The Competing Values Model: Redefining Organizational Effectivenessand Change.

The Failure of Success: How Good Becomes Bad.

Competing Values and the Dynamics of Managerial Leadership.

Profiles of Effective and Ineffective Managers.

The Road to Mastery: An Agenda for Transforming Your ManagementStyle.

Assessment and Skill-Building Exercises.

Teaching Management Skills Using the Competing Values Model: A CaseStudy.

Conclusion: Beyond Rational Management.

Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 14/10/1991
      ISBN13: 9781555423773, 978-1555423773
      ISBN10: 1555423779
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes.

      Table of Contents
      The Journey from Novice to Master Manager.

      Achieving High Performance: A Paradoxical View of Excellence.

      Mastering the Contradictions of Organizational Life.

      The Competing Values Model: Redefining Organizational Effectivenessand Change.

      The Failure of Success: How Good Becomes Bad.

      Competing Values and the Dynamics of Managerial Leadership.

      Profiles of Effective and Ineffective Managers.

      The Road to Mastery: An Agenda for Transforming Your ManagementStyle.

      Assessment and Skill-Building Exercises.

      Teaching Management Skills Using the Competing Values Model: A CaseStudy.

      Conclusion: Beyond Rational Management.

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