Open Source Leadership - Paperback

by L. Gadman (Author), C. Cooper (Author)

The authors offer an approach to leadership practice which is more appropriate for the challenges of today's digitally networked economy. They conclude that, contrary to popular opinion, the practices proposed are not provoked by leadership education as they are evoked from a deep emotional feel for leading and leadership.

Author Biography

DR. LESLIE GADMAN teaches Strategic Management and Organisational Behaviour, at London South Bank University and is a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College London and the University Of Nottingham School Of Business. He gained his PhD at Lancaster University. Gadman has served as a consultant to private companies and public agencies in the areas of strategy formulation and implementation, change leadership and knowledge management. His research interests are centered on the impact of the Internet on business performance and culture. He has published in journals such as the Asian Journal on Quality, MIT's Sloan Management Review, and the Journal of Management Science. Gadman is also the author of 'Power Partnering: A Strategy for Excellence in the 21st Century.'

CARY L. COOPER is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University Management School, UK and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at Lancaster University. He is the author of over 100 books (on occupational stress, women at work and industrial and organizational psychology), has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV and radio. He is currently Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Co-Editor of the medical journal Stress& Health (formerly Stress Medicine). He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal Society of Health, British Academy of Management and an Academician of the Academy for the Social Sciences. Professor Cooper is the immediate past President of the British Academy of Management, is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and one of the first UK based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management. In 2001, Cary was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his contribution to organizational health. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Aston University (DSc), Heriot-Watt University (DLitt), Middlesex University (Doc. Univ) and Wolverhampton University (DBA); an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians; and in 2006 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (Hon FRCP).

Honorary fellowship for Cary Cooper
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