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Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

By: Chris Langdon,Nik Gowing

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Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

By: Chris Langdon,Nik Gowing

Executive leadership faces new vulnerabilities. Many leaders privately concede them, but few are willing to talk publicly about them. "Unthinkable" events since 2014 have revealed a new leadership fragility at the highest levels. And the pace of change in 2017 shows that the uncertainties are greater than ever. Is this the "new normal?"Thinking The Unthinkable is an investigation into why leaders have appeared more unable or unwilling than ever to anticipate the biggest issues of our time.In an era of "wicked problems" why are current leadership behaviours and culture apparently not fit for purpose? What are the causes of so many failures in policy and strategic forecasting? Are they human frailties? Or are they systemic failures to embrace smartly new realities?Through hundreds of interviews and conversations, Nik Gowling and Chris Langdon have analysed the deep new challenges to the human capacity of leaders at the highest keels to accept, understand, embrace then handle the extraordinary processes of change and disruption. This essential book draws on the candid responses. The findings are scary and disconcerting.

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1908095644

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Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual

Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge

By: Heather Fraser,Nik Taylor

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Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual

Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge

By: Heather Fraser,Nik Taylor

This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and focus on species, gender and class as they document the hazardous consequences of seeing people as instruments and knowledge as a form of capital. Personal-political examples are provided to illustrate some of the challenges but also opportunities facing activist scholars trying to resist neoliberalism. Heartfelt, frank, and unashamedly emotional, the book is a rallying cry for academics to defend their role as public intellectuals, to work together with communities, including those most negatively affected by neoliberalism and the corportatization of knowledge.

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Springer

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1137579099

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9781137579096

Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

By: Chris Langdon,Nik Gowing

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Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

By: Chris Langdon,Nik Gowing

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Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual

Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual

Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age

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