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Leadership Development in Practice : A Complexity Approach
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 chapter on creating large group dialogueA more explicit emphasis on what it means to take gender, diversity, and social justice seriouslyA review of the burgeoning interest in complexity perspectives on leadership and leadership development since publication of the first editionThis book is essential reading for leadership and organisational development professionals, researchers, and students.It will also be of interest to managers looking for an approach to leadership development that works with how things are rather than with idealisations of how things ought to be.
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Complexity and Leadership
Leading organisations in our contemporary world means grappling with unpredictability, painful pressures and continual conflict, all in the context of an acceleration in the pace of change.We expect the impossible from heroic leaders and they rarely live up to expectations.With countless recommendations, self-help books and new concepts, scholars and management consultants often simplify and dream unrealistically.This book challenges the more orthodox discourse on leadership and presents a way of thinking about leadership that pays closer attention to experience. The contributors in this book, all senior managers or facilitators of leadership development, resist easy solutions, new typologies or unrealistic prescriptions.Writing about their experiences in Denmark, the UK, Israel, Ethiopia, South Africa and beyond, they are less concerned with traits that people can possess and learn, or magical promises of recipes for success, and more with the socio-political process of the interaction between people from which leadership emerges as a theme.We focus on understanding leadership as a practice within which communication, research, imagination and ethical judgements are continuously improvised.So rather than idealising leadership, or reducing it to soothing tools and techniques, we suggest how leaders might become more politically, emotionally and socially savvy.This book is written for academics and practitioners with an interest in the everyday challenges of both individual and group practices of formal and informal leaders in different types of organisations, and is an ideal resource for executives and students on leadership development programmes.We hope this volume will help readers to expand the wisdom found in their own experience and discover for themselves and for others, a greater sense of freedom.
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Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2017 : Explorations of Chaos and Complexity Theory
The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences.The text explores chaotic and complex systems, as well as chaos and complexity theory in view of their applicability to management and leadership. This proceedings explores non-linearity as well as data-modelling and simulation in order to uncover new approaches and perspectives.Effort will not be spared in bringing theory into practice while exploring leadership and management-laden concepts.This book will cover the analysis of different chaotic developments from different fields within the concepts of chaos and complexity theory.Researchers and students in the field will find answers to questions surrounding these intertwined and compelling fields.
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One Page Talent Management, with a New Introduction : Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value
A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fastYou know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent.You also know what it takes to build that talent--and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen.Yet somehow, your company's beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don't translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need.Why?Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that companies unwittingly add layers of complexity to their talent-building models--without evaluating whether those components add any value to the overall process.Consequently, simple activities like setting employee performance goals become multipage, headache-inducing time wasters that turn managers off and fail to improve results. Effron and Ort introduce a simple, powerful, scientifically proven approach to increase your ability to develop better leaders faster: One Page Talent Management (OPTM).Using the straightforward, easy-to-follow process described in this book, you will eliminate frustrating complexity, focus only on those components that add real value, and build transparency and accountability into every practice.Based on extensive research and experience in companies such as Avon Products, Bank of America, and Philips, One Page Talent Management shows you how to:Quickly identify high-potential talent without complex assessmentsIncrease the number of "ready now" successors for key rolesGenerate 360-degree feedback that accelerates change in the most critical behaviorsSignificantly reduce the time required for managers to implement talent-building processesDo away with complexity and bureaucracy--and develop the high-quality talent you need, right now.
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Can complexity be objectively measured?
Complexity can be objectively measured to some extent, especially in the context of information theory and algorithmic complexity. In information theory, complexity can be measured using metrics such as entropy and Kolmogorov complexity, which provide objective measures of the amount of information or computational resources required to describe a system. However, when it comes to measuring the complexity of real-world systems or phenomena, there is often a subjective element involved, as different observers may prioritize different aspects of complexity. Therefore, while certain aspects of complexity can be objectively measured, the overall assessment of complexity may still involve some degree of subjectivity.
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What is the complexity of Mergesort?
The time complexity of Mergesort is O(n log n) in the worst-case scenario, where n is the number of elements in the array. This complexity arises from the fact that Mergesort divides the array into halves recursively and then merges them back together in sorted order. The space complexity of Mergesort is O(n) due to the need for additional space to store the divided subarrays during the sorting process. Overall, Mergesort is an efficient sorting algorithm that performs well on large datasets.
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How can one get rid of complexity?
One can get rid of complexity by breaking down the problem or situation into smaller, more manageable parts. This can help to identify the root causes of the complexity and address them individually. Additionally, simplifying processes, communication, and decision-making can help reduce complexity. It is also important to prioritize and focus on the most important aspects, while letting go of unnecessary details. Finally, seeking input and collaboration from others can provide fresh perspectives and help to streamline complex situations.
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What is the complexity of composing two functions?
Composing two functions has a complexity of O(1), as it involves simply applying one function to the output of the other. The time complexity does not depend on the size of the input, as the functions are applied sequentially. Therefore, the complexity of composing two functions is constant and does not increase with the size of the input.
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Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management : Meeting the Challenge of Complexity
Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management.This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable. The book undertakes a critical exploration of just what these tools and techniques are about; showing that while they may lead to competent performance they cannot go further to expert performance because expertise involves going beyond rules and procedures.Ralph Stacey investigates the many questions that are thrown up as a result of this new approach.Questions such as:How do we apply this new way of thinking?What are the practical tools and techniques it gives us?What is the role of leaders in an unpredictable world?How does complexity affect the way organizations are structured and function?This book will be relevant to students on courses and modules that deal with leadership, decision-making and organizational development and behaviour as well as professional leaders and managers who want to develop their own understanding and techniques.
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Coherent School Leadership : Forging Clarity from Complexity
While leaders may desire or have been told that they must put certain structures into place in order to enhance their leadership capabilities, they may not know exactly what structures are needed, or the skills that are required for implementation.Authors Michael Fullan and Lyle Kirtman go beyond simply telling you what you need to put in place to enhance leadership—they detail the route to successful leadership.Coherent School Leadership will show you how to combine the components of Fullan's Coherence Framework (the Framework) with Kirtman's 7 Competencies for Highly Effective Leaders (the Competencies) to drive coherence—the shared depth of understanding about the nature of the work and how it impacts the results desired for student achievement—to change the culture in schools from reactive to proactive.Fullan and Kirtman, whose work is based in practice, will:Show you how to use specific competencies to drive coherence. Provide examples that show how other leaders have successfully created coherence. Guide you through the day-to-day distractions/stresses so that you can stay on course. Show you how to use the Competencies in relation to the Framework. Taking a world view of the forces that could destabilize education and the work of coherence, Coherent School Leadership will show how proven frameworks such as the Framework and the Competencies can help you cope with even the most complex scenarios.
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Leadership Assessment for Talent Development
For professionals responsible for talent management and development, assessing competence and capability is crucial, especially in relation to recruiting the right leader.Yet talent professionals can also use leadership assessment as a positive and powerful talent development tool.Leadership Assessment for Talent Development goes beyond recruitment to position assessment as a central, strategic activity.It demonstrates how to apply a connected process that accelerates behavioural change areas and facilitates the engagement and enabling of in-house talent.This practical, forward-looking book uses authentic, engaging case studies to show how the principles of leadership assessment can work in practice.It is an essential companion for HR and talent professionals in any field who want to equip their company with the talent it needs to be fit for business success.
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Paradoxical Leadership : How to Make Complexity an Advantage
On a daily basis, leaders, managers, and professionals alike have to deal with tensions caused by differing and even opposite approaches.We often feel the need to make a fundamental choice between either one or the other for the sake of clarity.Using practical methodology and an extensive toolkit, Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to transform divisive dilemmas into creative solutions and paralyzing polarization into a constructive dialogue. Ivo Brughmans focuses on solutions that include both sides of the coin and reconcile conflicting views.He works out the fundamental principles of a paradoxical perspective and explains how to apply them to yourself as a person and a professional, how to integrate them into your leadership style, how to implement them in your team and organization, and how to conduct an effective dialogue on polarizing issues.Developing this paradoxical perspective, the book sheds a refreshingly new light on a wide range of fundamental organizational and management challenges, such as strategy development, business design, corporate governance, performance management, change, agility, innovation, diversity, culture transformation, leadership, and talent. Demonstrating how to manage contradictions, tensions, and dilemmas in a productive and inclusive way, Paradoxical Leadership provides the skills, frameworks, and tools necessary to integrate both/and thinking into your working and leadership style.
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What are the Landau symbols for the time complexity?
The Landau symbols for time complexity are commonly used to describe the upper and lower bounds of an algorithm's running time. The most commonly used Landau symbols for time complexity are O (big O) for upper bound, Ω (big omega) for lower bound, and Θ (big theta) for both upper and lower bounds. These symbols are used to express the growth rate of an algorithm's running time in terms of the input size. For example, if an algorithm has a time complexity of O(n^2), it means that the running time of the algorithm grows no faster than n^2 as the input size increases.
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What are the Big O notations for time complexity?
The Big O notations for time complexity are used to describe the upper bound on the growth rate of an algorithm's running time as the input size increases. Some common Big O notations include O(1) for constant time complexity, O(log n) for logarithmic time complexity, O(n) for linear time complexity, O(n^2) for quadratic time complexity, and O(2^n) for exponential time complexity. These notations help in analyzing and comparing the efficiency of different algorithms.
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How do you determine the complexity of a function?
The complexity of a function can be determined by analyzing its time and space requirements. This can be done by examining the number of operations the function performs and the amount of memory it uses. Additionally, the complexity can be influenced by the size of the input data and the efficiency of the algorithm used in the function. By considering these factors, one can determine the complexity of a function, which is often expressed using Big O notation.
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What is the difference between entrepreneurship, business administration, and international management?
Entrepreneurship focuses on identifying and pursuing opportunities to create new ventures or innovate within existing organizations. Business administration involves the management and operation of a business, including functions such as finance, marketing, and human resources. International management, on the other hand, deals with the challenges and opportunities of managing businesses that operate across different countries and cultures, requiring a deep understanding of global markets and international business practices. Each field has its unique focus and skill set, but they are all interconnected and essential for successful business operations in today's global economy.
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