The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics

by Griffin,Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780415249171
• ISBN10: 0415249171
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A complexity perspective on leadership, this book considers factors such as risk and conflict, spontaneity and motivation, bullying and the use/abuse of power to express a new view of business ethics.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Series preface	x
Introduction: how we have come to think of ourselves as victims of systems	1	(26)
Systemic self-organization: the elimination of paradox	4	(5)
Participative self-organization: the reappearance of paradox	9	(8)
Complex responsive processes and the question of ethics	17	(5)
Outline of the book	22	(5)
Part I Leadership and systemic self-organization: participation in systems	27	(96)
Leadership: two questions seven years apart	30	(30)
Ron's question: linking leadership, communication and teams	31	(25)
Alberto's question: the emergence of leaders	56	(4)
Complexity: are organizations really living systems?	60	(30)
Leadership and the New Science	61	(7)
The theory of complex adaptive systems	68	(7)
The Soul at Work	75	(5)
Surfing the Edge of Chaos	80	(5)
The problem with ``living systems'' as a theory of leadership and ethics	85	(5)
Social interaction: viewing our selves as autonomous individuals	90	(33)
Culture: developing leadership theory on the basis of cybernetic theory	92	(8)
Modernist ethics: individual thought apart from action	100	(7)
Participation in ``living'' systems: harmony and inherent values	107	(8)
Challenging the theory of inherent values: conflicts between cult values and functional values	115	(4)
Summary	119	(4)
Part II Leadership and participative self-organization: participation in local interaction	123	(97)
The emergence of persons as selves in society	128	(47)
Social interaction without the concept of the autonomous individual	131	(12)
The paradox of time and the emergence of persons	143	(19)
Local interaction and the emergence of the person	162	(6)
Complex responsive processes of relating: the movement of experience in the living present	168	(7)
Leadership and ethics: emergence in everyday social interaction	175	(30)
Ethics: the emergent structures forming human experience	175	(8)
Contrasting time and causality in two theories of experience	183	(10)
Cult leadership versus functional leadership: recognizing diversity through conflict	193	(10)
Summary	203	(2)
Conclusion: articulating the ethics we are living	205	(15)
The perspective of systemic self-organization	207	(13)
Bibliography	220	(5)
Index	225