Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach [Hardcover]

The second edition of?Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach,?draws on auto-ethnographic accounts of experience from practitioners across three continents to explore the leadership development approaches that best support managers to work with uncertainty by taking their experience seriously.

Introduction to the First Edition 1

1 Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship 15

2 Rethinking Leadership 29

3 Rethinking Leadership Development 53

4 Coaching, Psychometrics, and 360? Feedback 79

5 Forum Theatre 106

6 Experiential Exercises 128

7 Action Learning Sets 152

8 Creating Large Group Dialogue 177

9 No Recipes, Just Rules of Thumb 204

Index 209

In an unpredictable world, how do we go about supporting leaders to develop more democratic and inclusive ways of working and living? The second edition of Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach draws on autoethnographic accounts of experience from practitioners across three continents to explore the leadership development approaches that best support managers to work with uncertainty by taking their experience seriously. It offers an alternative perspective on leadership and organisation for business schools, consultancies, and corporate training functions to adopt in their development of leaders.

Additions to this second edition include as follows:

• A new chaptl3.