Leading Change
The Argument For Values-Based Leadership
"[An] important new book . . .Mr. O'Toole puts soul and values squarely back into a vital topic, leadership."
--Tom Peters
The New York Times Book Review
"A deeply philosophical and eminently practical study of leadership as change."
--James MacGregor Burns
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, and author of Leadership
Current management philosophy advocates an outmoded Machiavellian approach to running organizations: Leaders are told in countless books that they can only accomplish their goals by being tough, manipulative, dictatorial, or paternalistic as the situation requires.
In Leading Change, noted management theorist James O'Toole proposes a provocative new vision of leadership in the business world--a vision of leadership rooted in moral values and a consistent display of respect for all followers. As O'Toole brilliantly demonstrates,…
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April 2, 1996James O’Toole is a graduate of Oxford University. He has held the University Associates’ Chair of Management at USC, served as executive director of the Leadership Institute, and was the editor of New Management magazine. Between 1994 and 1997, he was the executive vice president of the Aspen Institute. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere and one of the top 100 thought leaders on leadership by Leadership Excellence magazine. He is the author of Leading Change: The Argument for Values-Based Leadership.
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James O'Toole, Foreword by Walter Isaacson