{"product_id":"on-leadership-isbn-9781405132473","title":"On Leadership","description":"In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership, for example War and Peace, Othello, and Don Quixote.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents moral dilemmas related to leadership, for example the balance between private life and public duties, and between the expression and the control of sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEncourages readers to explore ideas that are sometimes subversive and unpalatable but may allow organizations to adapt in a rapidly changing world.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Foreword - Jean-Claude Thoenig. \u003cp\u003ePreface - James G. March.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface - Thierry Weil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction: an original approach to a hackneyed subject\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe organization of the course.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom oral to written presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIssues linked with leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Othello: leadership and private life, innocence and cleverness, revenge and the social order\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue on the appreciation of leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivate life and public role.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan revenge serve the social order?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCleverness, innocence, and virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy do people act as they do?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe characters in Othello.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Saint Joan: are heretics mad or are they geniuses?\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploitation and exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan leaders selected for their reliability be turned into creative leaders?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversity and unity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaint Joan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. War and Peace: ambiguity, incoherence, and irrelevance\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbiguity and incoherence: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeaders confronted by ambiguity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA novel with a structure reflecting a view of history: irrelevance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe social order in War and Peace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is power?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe powerlessness of power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower and hierarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower as seen by those who do not have it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssuming the ambivalence of power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentity and social order: the characters in War and Peace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeroism and irrelevance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe social order based on merit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy we are disappointed by our bosses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy are bosses not particularly clever?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Sex and leadership\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sexed nature of leadership in organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexuality and organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivate fantasies and social control of behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual harassment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbiguous sexual behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sexuality of leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre efficient organizations feminine?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEfficient organizations with no heroic leader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Don Quixote and the virtue of arbitrary commitment\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA strange novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon Quixote and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimary implications for leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon Quixote's vision of life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther lessons for leaders from Don Quixote.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreat visions, great actions, and great expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeroes to protect us from our own irrelevance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe stuff that dreams are made of.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pleasures of the process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Plumbers and poets\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat do leaders really do?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix 1: INTELLIGENCE VERSUS REASON, an overview of James March's work\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiseries of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe limitations of rationality or the critique of pure reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe application of suitable procedures or the critique of practical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThwarted learning or the critique of dialectic reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe technology of foolishness or the critique of immediate reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSplendors of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe charms of orthodoxy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rigorous and efficient use of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSystemic reason or the quest for intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedemption through enthusiasm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe collective need for individual gambles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to make the challenge of exploration attractive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond rationality: poetry, intuition, and enthusiasm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutions are not based on haggling alone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInsignificant actions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOptimism without hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMundane organizations and gardening.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix 1: Intelligence Versus Reason: An Overview of James March's Work\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix 2: Mundane Organizations and Heroic Leaders\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"One of the most refreshing, insightful and thought-provoking books on leadership. This intelligent treatment opens up many new lines of inquiry and offers many new theoretical and practical insights.\" \u003ci\u003eJohn Storey, The Open University Business School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is a book for leaders, and for those of us who watch our leaders with appreciation, distaste, empathy, and frustration. Professor March shakes the foundations of how we think about leadership…This book will not offer you six easy steps to becoming an effective leader, but it will provoke, amuse, challenge, and irritate you. It will force you to think about leadership in ways that will destroy your innocence.” \u003ci\u003eJoanne Martin, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJames G. March\u003c\/b\u003e is Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Sociology and Education at Stanford University. He has inspired generations of students with his work in the study of organizations. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eDecisions and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOrganizations\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eBehavioral Theory of the Firm\u003c\/i\u003e (Second Edition, 1992), \u003ci\u003eOrganizations\u003c\/i\u003e (Second Edition, 1993) and \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), all published by Blackwell Publishing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThierry Weil,\u003c\/b\u003e a former physicist, is Professor of Technology Management at École des Mines de Paris, where he was the Dean of research and graduate studies from 1991 to 1995. He also advises companies and policy makers on the management of innovation. From 2000 to 2002, he acted as scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of France, Lionel Jospin.\u003c\/p\u003e  For over 50 years, James G. March has made a sustained and innovative contribution to the study of organizations. In his renowned course on leadership at Stanford University he explores the problems of leadership using works of great literature, such as \u003ci\u003eWar and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eQuixote\u003c\/i\u003e. These essays are based on March’s notes for his course lectures. The notes have been interpreted by Thierry Weil, and translated here from his original French interpretation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarch uses literature to examine a set of dilemmas related to leadership – questions concerning the balance between private life and public duties, between ingenuity and innocence, between diversity and integration, and between the expression and the control of sexuality. He encourages us to explore ideas that are sometimes subversive and unpalatable, but may allow organizations to adapt in a rapidly changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989713273061,"sku":"NP9781405132473","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405132473.jpg?v=1761785212","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/on-leadership-isbn-9781405132473","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}