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The increase in volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in business and society is confronting many managers with the question of which skills they need to adapt or relearn to act effectively as managers in the future. The authors show you that the key to this does not lie in the learning of new management concepts. On the contrary, effective leadership is much more about homing in and focusing on what has not changed, namely the core attitudes and patterns of action inherent in human beings.

Content:

Leadership as a transformation process
A basic framework of patterns of action as a basis for effective leadership and personality growth
Morality as the inner orientation and basis for economically sustainable leadership
Courage as a catalyst

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Table of contents

Prologue

Introduction

Transformation

Patterns

The goal getter
The dreamer
The team player
The golden child
Archetypes

The warrior
The magician
The lover
The king
The role of the archetypes in personality development
Four

Ancient theories of four
Contemporary theories of four
Clusters of four
Four+1

Self-leadership
Purpose
Implementation
Relationship
Awareness
Mindfulness
Key takeaways
Orientation

Is something else missing?
What is morality?
How does morality develop?
Morality in business
Leadership teams as moral authorities
Courage

How do we define courage?
Courage as a catalyst for self-leadership, effectively leading others, moral leadership and personality growth
Bibliography

Authors

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Gorbach, Andreas
Dr. Andreas Gorbach is Managing Director for the global engine and axle platforms of the Truck and Bus Group of Daimler AG. Before he held various management positions in Research & Development of engines, transmissions and exhaust systems. He holds a degree (Diplom) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, studied Advanced Dynamics and Control at the University of Wisconsin, and completed his PhD in the area of gas purification processes at the University of Stuttgart.

Dannath-Schuh, Julia
Dr. Julia Dannath-Schuh Partner & Managing Director at Manres AG, managing their locations in Cologne and Hamburg. Assessor and trainer for leadership and personality development in the Top Management, individualized coaching of executives within the context of transformational processes. Degree in Psychology at the Saarland University. PhD in cognitive sciences through a college program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Association) at the University of Tuebingen.

Cusumano, Franziska
Franziska Cusumano is the Executive Assistant to the CEO of the Truck and Bus Group of Daimler AG. Before she held various positions within Daimler AG in the areas of Research & Development of hybrid vehicles, production optimization in the foundry and project management of international vehicle and aggregate projects. She studied International Business with a focus on Management Cybernetics in Mannheim and completed her Master´s degree in Urban Planning and Future Mobility (M.Sc.) at Columbia University in New York.

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