The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World
David K. Hurst
eISBN: 978-0-231-50414-0
2012 (304 pages , 24 figures, 14 line drawings)
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(pages 1-362)
Front Matter
(pages 1-8)
Contents
(pages 9-12)
Acknowledgments
(pages 13-16)
Introduction: What to Expect
(pages 17-30)
PART I. The Dimensions of Change
(pages 31-32)
1. Lost in Management Th ought
(pages 33-38)
2. Economics, Evolution, and Ecology
(pages 39-42)
3. Scale in Space and Time
(pages 43-49)
4. Why Wal-Mart’s Growth Is like a Forest’s
(pages 50-56)
5. The Ecocycle - Life, Death, and Renewal
(pages 57-61)
6. The Ecocycle in Human Organizations
(pages 62-64)
PART II. The Front Loop - Nothing Fails like Success
(pages 65-66)
7. Communities of Trust
(pages 67-73)
8. Logic and Power
(pages 74-79)
9. Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction
(pages 80-85)
10. The Product Life Cycle Meets the Ecocycle
(pages 86-93)
11. The Pathologies of Power
(pages 94-100)
12. The Onset of Crisis
(pages 101-106)
PART III. The Back Loop - From Crisis to Renewal
(pages 107-108)
13. Wisdom from the Scriptures
(pages 109-114)
14. Into the Wilderness
(pages 115-119)
15. Climbing the Mountain
(pages 120-125)
16. The Logic of Leadership
(pages 126-132)
17. The Complete Ecocycle
(pages 133-137)
18. Vice and Virtue
(pages 138-144)
PART IV. Staying in the Sweet Zone
(pages 145-146)
19. Tools and Settings in the Sweet Zone
(pages 147-152)
20. Power Tools and Settings - Instructions and Directions
(pages 153-159)
21. Management Tools and Settings - Rules and Incentives
(pages 160-167)
22. Leadership Tools and Settings = Images and Invitations
(pages 168-178)
23. Culture Tools and Settings - Custom and Convention
(pages 179-189)
24. Change in Depth
(pages 190-198)
25. The Design of Choice
(pages 199-207)
26. Lean - The Practice of “Both . . . And”
(pages 208-218)
27. Prescribed Burns: Context, Conflict, Crisis, and Creation
(pages 219-231)
28. Growing People
(pages 232-243)
29. Don’t Throw the Past Away
(pages 244-256)
PART V. A Brief Orientation and Field Guide
(pages 257-258)
30. Using the Ecocycle - Key Concepts and Questions
(pages 259-272)
Notes
(pages 273-316)
Bibliography
(pages 317-338)
Index
(pages 339-362)
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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World
David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations—their function and their failure—both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crises and turnaround conditions, and is also a widely experienced consultant, teacher, and writer on business. This book is his innovative integration of management practice and theory, using a systems perspective and analogies drawn from nature to illustrate groundbreaking ideas and their practical application. It is designed for readers unfamiliar with sophisticated management concepts and for active practitioners seeking to advance their management and leadership skills.
Hurst’s objective is to help readers make meaning from their own management experience and education, and to encourage improvement in their practical judgment and wisdom. His approach takes an expansive view of organizations, connecting their development to humankind’s evolutionary heritage and cultural history. It locates the origins of organizations in communities of trust and follows their development and maturation. He also crucially tracks the decline of organizations as they age and shows how their strengths become weaknesses in changing circumstances.
Hurst’s core argument is that the human mind is rational in an ecological, rather than a logical, sense. In other words, it has evolved to extract cues to action from the specific situations in which it finds itself. Therefore contexts matter, and Hurst shows how passion, reason, and power can be used to change and sustain organizations for good and ill. The result is an inspirational synthesis of management theory and practice that will resonate with every reader’s experience.
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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World
Author(s):
Hurst, David K.
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