The Leader's Shadow: Exploring and Developing Executive Character

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SAGE, Mar 6, 1999 - Business & Economics - 216 pages
This is the first book to examine fully the inner dynamics of executives in top leadership positions.

This empirical examination of the character of leaders covers areas such as personality, values and spirituality, and has been conducted through surveys and in-depth interviews.

The reader is invited to combine the information gleaned from the life stories of the interviewed CEOs with personal reflection as a first step in developing his or her own leadership character.

 

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Contents

Context Surrounding Executive Leaders
13
Personalities of Executive Leaders
37
Personal Values of Executive Leaders
63
Spirituality of Executive Leaders
83
Spiritual Experiences of CEOS
89
Creating a Vision of the Future
113
Creating Effective Strategic Priorities
129
Creating Organizational Trust
147
Character and Creative Fruits Examined Together
161
Going Into the Shadow and Emerging a Leader
177
The General Survey of CEOS
187
Field Interviews of CEOS
193
Index
209
About the Author
215
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William Q. Judge
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William Q. Judge
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William Q. Judge
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About the author (1999)

William Q. Judge is the E.V. Williams Chair of Strategic Leadership and Professor of Strategic Management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Bill was a U.S. Fulbright scholar to MGIMO University in Moscow in 2001, formerly served as the Director of the EMBA Program at the University of Tennessee, and has served as a board member for a $300 million health system for nine years. During his career, he has earned five different teaching awards and helped to train over 50 strategic management doctoral students. Dr. Judge′s primary expertise is in the area of strategic leadership and corporate governance. He has published a popular simulation on "change management" at Harvard Business Publishing, three books, and many top-tier journal articles. Bill currently serves as the Strategic Management Collection Editor for Business Expert Press, and was the former editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review, the premiere scholarly journal in corporate governance.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Leader's Shadow: Exploring and Developing Executive Character
AuthorWilliam Q. Judge
PublisherSAGE, 1999
ISBN0761915397, 9780761915393
Length216 pages
Subjects › 

Business & Economics / Education
Business & Economics / Leadership
Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior
Psychology / Personality
  
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