The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Lipman–Blumen, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787902438 ISBN 13: 9780787902438

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Connect with a new kind of leadership

Welcome to the Connective Era, an era of global competition that transforms arch–rivals into allies and compels them to cooperate in unprecedented ways––an era of fundamental change that demands a new approach to leadership. With this book, internationally acclaimed consultant Jean Lipman–Blumen defines that approach with a bold new model based on an innovative nine–part strategy. She provides historic examples from Wall Street to the Warsaw Pact, from Gorbachev to Ghandi. And she delineates the skills leaders need in order to flourish under the demands of interorganizational relationships, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.

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Review:

"Quite simply, the book is a masterpiece. . . . Not since James McGregor Burns′s book, Leadership, have I read a work that moves so easily from one social system to another." —Warren Bennis, founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California and author of Why Leaders Can′t Lead and An Invented Life

"Finally...a brilliant, readable, instructive and path–breaking book on leadership that does not grotesquely oversimplify this paramount task/job in society. Dare I say it? Jean Lipman–Blumen′s rich, magisterial The Connective Edge is a page turner!" —Tom Peters

From the Back Cover:

When arch–rivals IBM and Apple forged an unprecedented partnership to build and distribute a computer operating system for worldwide use, these two industrial giants stepped into the Connective Era. In this thought–provoking book, Jean Lipman–Blumen, world–renowned consultant and organizational sociologist, explores this challenging new environment, and sets forth an innovative style for future leadership.She offers a nine–step strategy for connective leaders in politics and government, business and industry, education and religion?with examples from Wall Street to the Warsaw Pact, from Gorbachev to Gandhi. She demonstrates how to move beyond competition to balance the two antithetical forces that will define our future success: interdepAndence and diversity.Based on extensive analysis of the leadership styles of more than 5,000 leaders and managers worldwide, Lipman–Blumen has developed a way for leaders to flourish under the new demands of interorganizational relationships, joint ventures, and partnerships.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0787902438
• ISBN 13: 9780787902438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402