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Leadership, Character and Strategy

Exploring Diversity

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 1-5

  3. Stories

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 6-15

  4. Science

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 16-31

  5. Values

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 32-65

  6. Conflict

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 66-76

  7. Home base

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 77-93

  8. Where you are now

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 94-103

  9. Job role

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 104-113

  10. Leadership model

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 114-120

  11. Developing strategy

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 121-129

  12. Developing a Warrior strategy

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 130-140

  13. Developing a Sage strategy

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 141-154

  14. Developing an Adventurer strategy

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 155-164

  15. Developing a Guardian strategy

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 165-175

  16. Organizational culture and leadership

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 176-205

  17. Developing your own leadership

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 206-219

  18. Conclusions and health warning

    • Keith Patching
    Pages 220-220

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 221-282
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About this book

Understanding how genetic and environmental differences influence people's characters allows leaders as different as Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher to be influential in their own way. Based on over two decades of experience and research this is a practioner's guide to developing a leadership strategy.

Reviews

'Leaders and development practitioners have an alternative to the search for the leadership model holy grail. Keith Patching's definitive work provides insights into the diversity of leadership, how to identify and develop unique leadership capability and tap into the broad base of leadership that exists in our organisations.' - Terry Lockhart, Director, Leadership and Development, Merrill Lynch

'It is rare in the field of Leadership Development to have such a commercial yet intellectually robust work - I believe that this book shifts the paradigm and we will all be referring to ourselves as Guardians, Warriors, Sages and Adventurers in 20 years from now. Keith Patching has given those of us who operate in Leadership development an entirely new way of looking at the differentiators between the champions and the those who could have been successful if only brigade - this book is commercial, rational, focussed and based on the experiences of a senior practitioner in this area for over 20 years. A must read for anyone in the Leadership Development business and those who aspire to be the next generation of senior business leaders.' - William Warren, Chief Executive of Deabadh

About the author

KEITH PATCHING is an Executive Coach running an international independent consultancy firm. Previously he was Director of the Management Development Unit at Cranfield School of Management. He was intimately involved with the research for, design, delivery and subsequent evaluation of many of the major in-company interventions which the School provided for clients. He has worked on programmes for national and international organizations in the public and private sectors, as well as recently privatized organizations facing major changes of direction.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Leadership, Character and Strategy

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Diversity

  • Authors: Keith Patching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625426

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-50084-6Published: 22 November 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35291-3Published: 22 November 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62542-6Published: 22 November 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 282

  • Topics: Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, International Business

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