... Dominant patterns of behaviour Self‐assessment Risk‐taking Relationships Stories The Leadership Crash Course is a valuable, hands‐on guide for leaders and high‐potential managers or employees on the self‐development fast track to success in the business world. Prime for today's busy...

... the grapevine and to create and share a vision. This part of the book reads like the guide the book claims to be, and has useful matrices and templates. There are stories and realworld examples interspersed throughout the second part by way of illustration of the theoretical points being made. In the third...

...David Coghlan Organizational theory Stories Power David   Knights and Hugh   Wilmott . Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations . London : Sage   1999 . 192 pp , ISBN: ISBN 0 8039 8334 4   £15.99 (paperback) Over the last few weeks...

...Nick Forster; Martin Cebis; Sol Majteles; Anurag Mathur; Roy Morgan; Janet Preuss; Vinod Tiwari; Des Wilkinson The importance of story‐telling in organizational life has often been overlooked in contemporary organizational and leadership literature. Throughout history, leaders ‐ political...