Product Description
Courageous Conversations – A Collection of Interviews and Reflections on Responsible Leadership by South African Captains of Industry
Authors: D Gleason, S Nkomo, D de Jongh
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Fourteen captains of industry. One hour of intense, candid and often brutal examination with each leader. Courageous Conversations takes the reader on a privileged walk through the corridors of corporate power, on a journey to the centre of leadership.
What is leadership? How have these remarkable individuals steered their companies through times of largesse and, more recently, recession? Has the board become an outdated model? Are visions, values and ethics being sacrificed on the altar of profitability? Has executive remuneration really gone too far?
The ultimate goal: to discover what lessons can be learned and taken on board for the next generation of South Africa?s corporate leaders. David Gleason, a well-known financial journalist and columnist, gets into the minds, and ultimately the hearts, of these celebrated leaders with often surprising and dramatic consequences.
Courageous Conversations is a fearless exposition of real-life leadership. It stands apart from other books in the field of leadership with its dual-analysis format: one analysis written by Gleason and an academic analysis of each interview by Professor Stella Nkomo, with contributions from Professor Derick de Jongh.
Each interview has been transcribed and copied onto a CD, which accompanies the book.
Times of tectonic change call for Courageous Conversations .
Contents:
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Chapter 1 Conceptualising Courageous Conversations
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Chapter 2 Roy Andersen
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Chapter 3 Tom Boardman
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Chapter 4 Mark Cutifani
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Chapter 5 Brian Patrick Gilbertson
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Chapter 6 Bobby Godsell
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Chapter 7 Adrian Gore
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Chapter 8 Stephen Koseff
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Chapter 9 Bernie Krone
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Chapter 10 Mark Lamberti
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Chapter 11 Jabu Mabuza
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Chapter 12 Sizwe Nxasana
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Chapter 13 Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita
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Chapter 14 Maria Ramos
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Chapter 15 Michael Spicer
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Chapter 16 Configuring Courageous Conversations
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