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Leading Professionals: Power, Politics and Prima Donnas

Leading Professionals: Power, Politics and Prima Donnas

Author: Laura Empson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198744788

Published In: September 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Professional organizations - such as accounting and consulting firms, law firms, and investment banks - are fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. Yet many of the most powerful are notoriously private.

This book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations - revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface which these organizations present to the outside world.

Individual professionals - highly educated, highly intelligent, and highly opinionated - are generally reluctant to see themselves as followers and may be equally reluctant to put themselves forward as leaders. They value their autonomy and confer authority on their leaders on a highly contingent basis.

How does a professional come to be seen as a leader within a professional organization? How do leaders maintain their position once they have reached the top of their organization? How do they navigate the complex power relationships among their professional colleagues and actually get things done?

Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas analyses the complex power dynamics and interpersonal politics that lie at the heart of leadership in professional organizations. It is based on Laura Empson's scholarly research into the world's leading professional organizations across a range of sectors, including interviews with over 500 senior professionals in 16 countries.

It draws on the latest organizational and leadership theory to analyse in detail exactly how professionals come together to create 'leadership'. It identifies how change happens within professional organizations and explains why their leaders so often fail.

1: Introduction and overview

Part 1: Foundations of Leadership

2: Leadership Constellation: Power, Politics, and Professionals

3: Leadership Dynamics: Co-constructing an Unstable Equilibrium

4: Leadership and Governance: Reconciling the Individual with the Collective

Part 2: Leadership and Individuals

5: Leadership Dyads: The Ideal Leader is Two People

6: Leading Insecure Overachievers: The Comforts of Social Control

7: Leading Discreetly: Management Professionals as Consummate Politicians

Part 3: Leadership and Organizations

8: Leadership Evolution: Growing Up and Growing Older

9: Leading Mergers: The Ultimate Change Challenge