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What philosophy can teach you about being a better leader

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kogan Page 2020 New DelhiDescription: xviii, 208 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780749493165
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4092 R3W4
Summary: For decades, we have looked to management theorists, organizational psychologists, and economists to tell us how we can squeeze the most out of people at work. The result? People are uninspired, feel like cogs in a machine, and prefer to leave traditional work structures behind. Numbers and productivity can only get you so far. What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader offers a different route that will allow you to reconnect with the humanist values of work. By turning to philosophy, and what it teaches us about finding fulfillment and living a good life, this book uncovers the ways you can re-engage your workforce by valuing its members as people, rather than just tools within the process. The four authors argue that the rise of the 'omnipotent leader', who focuses on telling rather than leading, risks creating a new generation of feudal CEOs and needs to be resisted. With the help of Aristotle, Socrates, Kant, and Nietzsche, as well as a whole host of other brilliant minds, they turn traditional management practices on their head, showing how moving away from traditional, hierarchical, risk-focused control structures can lead to improved employee engagement, increased productivity and better outcomes for the entire business. https://www.koganpage.com/product/what-philosophy-can-teach-you-about-being-a-better-leader-9780749493165
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Table of contents

Introduction: The dehumanized workplace
Chapter 1. Who can reconnect us with our dreams?
Chapter 2. Reason and passion in the humanized workplace
Chapter 3. Humanizing strategy
Chapter 4. Creativity and critical thinking
Chapter 5. A question of example and fairness
Chapter 6. The gift of authority
Chapter 7. Meaning and communication
Chapter 8. From engagement to encounter
Chapter 9. Values and ethical pluralism
Chapter 10. The freedom to do what you can
Index

For decades, we have looked to management theorists, organizational psychologists, and economists to tell us how we can squeeze the most out of people at work. The result? People are uninspired, feel like cogs in a machine, and prefer to leave traditional work structures behind. Numbers and productivity can only get you so far.
What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader offers a different route that will allow you to reconnect with the humanist values of work. By turning to philosophy, and what it teaches us about finding fulfillment and living a good life, this book uncovers the ways you can re-engage your workforce by valuing its members as people, rather than just tools within the process.
The four authors argue that the rise of the 'omnipotent leader', who focuses on telling rather than leading, risks creating a new generation of feudal CEOs and needs to be resisted. With the help of Aristotle, Socrates, Kant, and Nietzsche, as well as a whole host of other brilliant minds, they turn traditional management practices on their head, showing how moving away from traditional, hierarchical, risk-focused control structures can lead to improved employee engagement, increased productivity and better outcomes for the entire business.

https://www.koganpage.com/product/what-philosophy-can-teach-you-about-being-a-better-leader-9780749493165

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