Description
Book SynopsisW. Edwards Deming once stated that the job of management is not supervision but leadership. He also concluded that capable leaders were those who understood and applied the system of profound knowledge.
Four-Cornered Leadership: A Framework for Making Decisions examines the system of profound knowledge and identifies the competencies that set the stage for its successful application. Illustrating the relationship between leaders and followers, it analyzes each of the four pillars that support Deming''s system, in relation to prevailing management and organizational theory. It describes a set of competencies based on these core principles that convey very different assumptions about people and organizations.
The book supplies you with a new way to view leadership that is based on learning and continual modification in response to prevailing conditions. Highlighting the connection between the four elements and an individual's ability to lead, it p
Table of Contents
Leadership Defined. Understand the Importance of System Interdependencies. Understand Why People Behave as They Do. Understand How People Learn, Develop, and Improve. Understand the Variability of Work. Give Meaning, Purpose, and Direction to the Job at Hand. Manage the Dynamics, Interdependencies, and Interaction. Appendix. References. Index.
