New Faces of Leadership - Sinclair, Amanda; Valerie, Wilson
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Diversity is the new frontier of leadership. An increasingly central role of managers is to be able to work effectively with highly diverse and geographically dispersed workforces, while serving markets that are both global and differentiated. This book reports on pioneering research with Australian leaders - some born in Australia, others overseas - on working effectively with difference. New Faces of Leadership draws together research not just from business, but from psychology, sociology and the study of multiculturalism and ethnic economies to provide a new insight on why working with…mehr

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Diversity is the new frontier of leadership. An increasingly central role of managers is to be able to work effectively with highly diverse and geographically dispersed workforces, while serving markets that are both global and differentiated. This book reports on pioneering research with Australian leaders - some born in Australia, others overseas - on working effectively with difference. New Faces of Leadership draws together research not just from business, but from psychology, sociology and the study of multiculturalism and ethnic economies to provide a new insight on why working with diversity is challenging and how to develop capabilities in diversity leadership.
Old models of tough, out-front leadership have less and less relevance in today's dynamic and international business environment. In New Faces of Leadership, Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson investigate the more open and flexible forms that future leadership will take. They explore the experiences of thirty of Australia's business leaders, all with successful careers in large corporations-and their approach is unusual. By drawing out the backgrounds of these men and women, the authors show how personal experience helps forge an openness to difference. The childhood stories of these leaders are fascinating. They establish that early experiences in crossing borders-physical, cultural, linguistic, socio-economic and emotional borders-are a key ingredient for successful leadership in today's world. In the stories of those from immigrant backgrounds, it is not surprising to find discrimination and a strong sense of needing to camouflage difference. But peeling back the layers reveals that those with more conventional lives have also been shaped by a variety of border-crossing experiences. New Faces of Leadership is full of unexpected insights. It pinpoints the ambivalence many leaders feel about advocating for difference in business contexts. Yet it predicts that successful future leaders will be people who, having harnessed their own experiences of difference, are able to bring openness, flexibility and courage to their leadership.
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Autorenporträt
Amanda Sinclair is Foundation Professor of Management (Diversity and Change) at the Melbourne Business School. Her recent publications include Doing Leadership Differently (MUP 1998). Valerie Wilson has a PhD from the Melbourne Business School and is the author of The Secret Life of Money (1999). She is a freelance researcher, and runs a manufacturing and importing business.