About the Book
The Arc of Awarenes
The Arc of Awareness explores and captures the essence of a leader’s journey of expanding awareness.
This book is intended as a guide for students of business leadership in tertiary institutions as well as for practicing leaders in business who want to expand their appreciation of the key issues that confront leaders as they grow and develop.
The book’s main thesis — developed through a series of fourteen questions of awareness — is that by asking themselves these questions, leaders.....
Personal Crucibles
Personal Crucibles provides a compelling narrative about how adversity enables people to develop and grow as leaders.
Through seven unique defining experiences Joe shows how he endured severe challenges through which he was able to discover his inner strength by channeling pain and bitterness caused by adversity and reversal into positive energy and learning that fueled his passion for achievement.
The narrative graphically illustrates how loss, despair and setbacks can be transformed into positive energy that propels a person forward.
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Leading Without Command
Leading Without Command offers practicing and aspiring leaders in business and other disciplines a new way to lead in a world defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
The compelling argument in this book is that leading through command, control, and deployment of raw positional power can no longer guarantee superior organizational performance on a sustainable basis.
A new leadership model based on a humane perspective anchored on people-centred principles and supported by a.....
The Role of the CEO in Corporate Transformation
The Role of the CEO in Corporate Transformation is a narrative research study on how four successive CEOs influenced the transformation of their company over a thirty-year period.
The book is intended for students of business leadership as well as for business leaders seeking to understand better the dynamics of leadership and corporate transformation.
The book argues that what leaders do to lead and how they lead is significantly influenced by the context of.....
No Ordinary Path
No Ordinary Path is a narrative of the key transitions that a young black Zimbabwean leader experienced in his unusual journey as a corporate warrior rising from the bottom to the top of the organization in Zimbabwe’s post-independence era. This is a compelling real-life example of how specialists transform into generalists comfortable with leading the whole enterprise.
Savannah Protocols
The Savannah Protocols offers a helicopter view of the investment opportunities available across sub-Saharan Africa. The risks and potential obstacles are clearly articulated, and the business strategies suitable for sub-Saharan Africa frontier markets are explored through the use of metaphors that are grounded in the context of the subregion.
“What a wonderful book. Imaginative. Practical. Inspirational. Important for anyone involved with business leadership, not just in Africa. It takes us right into the heart of so many key leadership and.....
Leading for the Future
Leading for the Future offers unique insights into how business leaders can meet the challenges of balancing the demands of the present and the future by remaining aware and by actively shaping the context inside their organizations so as to mitigate the disruptive effects of turbulent business environments.