The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics

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ISBN: 9780415249171 | 0415249171
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Copyright: 12/29/2001

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A complexity perspective on leadership, this book considers factors such as risk and conflict, spontaneity and motivation, bullying and the use/abuse of power to express a new view of business ethics.

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Series preface

Introduction: how we have come to think of ourselves as victims of systems

(26)

Systemic self-organization: the elimination of paradox

(5)

Participative self-organization: the reappearance of paradox

(8)

Complex responsive processes and the question of ethics

(5)

Outline of the book

(5)

Part I Leadership and systemic self-organization: participation in systems

(96)

Leadership: two questions seven years apart

(30)

Ron's question: linking leadership, communication and teams

(25)

Alberto's question: the emergence of leaders

(4)

Complexity: are organizations really living systems?

(30)

Leadership and the New Science

(7)

The theory of complex adaptive systems

(7)

The Soul at Work

(5)

Surfing the Edge of Chaos

(5)

The problem with ``living systems'' as a theory of leadership and ethics

(5)

Social interaction: viewing our selves as autonomous individuals

(33)

Culture: developing leadership theory on the basis of cybernetic theory

(8)

Modernist ethics: individual thought apart from action

100

(7)

Participation in ``living'' systems: harmony and inherent values

107

(8)

Challenging the theory of inherent values: conflicts between cult values and functional values

115

(4)

Summary

119

(4)

Part II Leadership and participative self-organization: participation in local interaction

123

(97)

The emergence of persons as selves in society

128

(47)

Social interaction without the concept of the autonomous individual

131

(12)

The paradox of time and the emergence of persons

143

(19)

Local interaction and the emergence of the person

162

(6)

Complex responsive processes of relating: the movement of experience in the living present

168

(7)

Leadership and ethics: emergence in everyday social interaction

175

(30)

Ethics: the emergent structures forming human experience

175

(8)

Contrasting time and causality in two theories of experience

183

(10)

Cult leadership versus functional leadership: recognizing diversity through conflict

193

(10)

Summary

203

(2)

Conclusion: articulating the ethics we are living

205

(15)

The perspective of systemic self-organization

207

(13)

Bibliography

220

(5)

Index

225

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The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics

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