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Book SynopsisIn short essays this collection captures the essence of the irrationalities that pervade organizations and compromise leaders. This book develops surprising ideas about how organizations tick, and why they, and the people within them, ultimately succeed or fail.
Table of ContentsPart One: Leaders and the Organization
1. If I'm the Leader, Will Anyone Follow? A Definition of Leadership
2. Welcome to the Snake Pit: The New CEO
3. Boiled Frogs and Dancing Elephants: Change and Downsizing
4. Merger Fever: Managing Acquisition
5. Do You Like Singing the Company Song? Corporate Culture
6. A Cultural Tower of Babel: Managing Across Borders
7. Are You Sure You Want to Work Abroad? International Assignments
8. Do You Have the Right Stuff? The Making of a Global Leader
9. When the Future Is Now: Leadership for the Next Millennium
Part Two: Leaders and Individuals
10. Is Anatomy Really Destiny? Women as Leaders
11. Joining the Family Burlesque: Family Firms
12. Reaping the Whirlwind: Creativity at Work
13. CEOs Also Have the Blues: Succession and Retirement
14. Do Workaholics Have More Fun? Balancing Work and Pleasure
15. Dead Fish, Incorporated: Alexithymia in Organizations
16. Doing a Maxwell: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship
17. Why Work for a Genghis Khan? Identifying with the Aggressor
18. Leaders Who Go Off the Deep End: Narcissism and Hubris
19. Conclusion: In Praise of a Little Madness
