Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders

Abstract

LEADERS AND THE ORGANIZATION. If I'm the Leader, Will Anyone Follow? A Definition of Leadership. Welcome to the Snake Pit: The New CEO. Boiled Frogs and Dancing Elephants: Change and Downsizing. Merger Fever: Managing Acquisition. Do You Like Singing the Company Song? Corporate Culture. A Cultural Tower of Babel: Managing Across Borders. Are You Sure You Want to Work Abroad? International Assignments. Do You Have the Right Stuff? The Making of a Global Leader. When the Future Is Now: Leadership for the Next Millennium. LEADERS AND INDIVIDUALS. Is Anatomy Really Destiny? Women as Leaders. Joining the Family Burlesque: Family Firms. Reaping the Whirlwind: Creativity at Work. CEOs Also Have the Blues: Succession and Retirement. Do Workaholics Have More Fun? Balancing Work and Pleasure. Dead Fish, Incorporated: Alexithymia in Organizations. Doing a Maxwell: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship. Why Work for a Genghis Khan? Identifying with the Aggressor. Leaders Who Go Off the Deep End: Narcissism and Hubris. Conclusion: In Praise of a Little Madness.

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