The Transformational Leader: The Key to Global Competitiveness - Hardcover

Tichy, Noel M.; Devanna, Mary Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471822590 ISBN 13: 9780471822592

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1986

Synopsis

This book dissects the process of transformational leadership and gives managers specific ideas for transforming their own companies. The book breaks down transformation into a "Three Act" process - how to identify where change is needed, how to develop a long-range vision of what should be done, and how to translate that vision into action. Interviews with executives at various stages of transformation - from those working to revitalize struggling companies to those seeking to anticipate new markets from a position of strength - give managers insights into the obstacles they can expect and how successful transformational leaders overcome them.

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From the Back Cover

Now in paper! The blueprint for instituting change used by America′s top CEOs!

THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

Lee Iacocca is one. So is GE′s Jack Welch. And Unisys′s Michael Blumenthal. They′re "transformational" leaders––a special breed capable of managing the kind of massive turnaround most U.S. companies will have to undergo in the next decade to stay competitive. But what makes them able to steer their huge organizations down new paths? The Transformational Leader gives senior executives and managers the answers, not by profiling personalities, but by dissecting the process of transformational leadership and giving managers specific ideas for transforming their own companies.

Praise for The Transformational Leader . . .

"I hope executives everywhere take the time to learn from this valuable book." ––Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School author of The Change Masters and When Giants Learn to Dance

"Takes its place in the first rank of books on leadership. It is a fascinating study of business leaders who actually accomplished major transformations. I learned a great deal from it." ––John Gardner, founder of Common Cause and former Secretary of HEW

About the Author

NOEL M. TICHY is a professor at the University of Michigan′s Graduate School of Business and the author of several books including Managing Strategic Change.

MARY ANNE DEVANNA was, until her recent death, Associate Dean of Columbia University′s Graduate School of Business and coeditor of The Portable MBA and Strategic Human Resource Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471822590
• ISBN 13: 9780471822592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306