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KOGAN PAGE LIMITED What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader by Alison Reynolds Jules Goddard Dominic Houlder & David Lewis
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._x000D__x000D_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 fulfilment 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._x000D__x000D_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._x000D_ _x000D_
Chapter - 00: Introduction - The dehumanized workplace;_x000D_
Chapter - 01: Who can reconnect us with our dreams?;_x000D_
Chapter - 02: Reason and passion in the humanized workplace;_x000D_
Chapter - 03: Humanizing strategy;_x000D_
Chapter - 04: Creativity and critical thinking;_x000D_
Chapter - 05: A question of example and fairness;_x000D_
Chapter - 06: The gift of authority;_x000D_
Chapter - 07: Meaning and communication;_x000D_
Chapter - 08: From engagement to encounter;_x000D_
Chapter - 09: Values and ethical pluralism;_x000D_
Chapter - 10: The freedom to do what you can;_x000D_
Chapter - 11: Index_x000D_