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Traditionally, leadership has been equated with vision. We look to leaders in business and government to have the genius to know the future and lead the rest of us to where that vision becomes a reality. We look for goals to beckon us and rely on strategic plans to guide us, all the while knowing how unreliable and unpredictable the future might be. Emerging realities (the financial crisis of 2008, the rise and fall of oil prices, the creative destruction of the Internet, for instance) often distort and destroy established maps. How do we plan when plans become irrelevant? Through his celebrated career as a professor of business and a medicine man to companies big and small, Donald Sull has studied how best to reconcile this paradox. The essence of leadership, in the deep logic that underpins this book, relies on a leader's flexible tenacity to plot a course that can withstand and even be propelled by the complexity and dynamism that the modern business terrain contains. Based on a decade of research, historical case studies, and intensive work with established enterprises and start-ups, this book lays out the fundamental logic of opportunity and provides a series of practical steps to translate insight into action.

Before they can effectively manage others, managers have to be adept at managing themselves. That requires truly understanding their own passions, motivations, strengths, and weaknesses. This guide offers sage advice from business greats, including Peter F. Drucker and John P. Kotter, on how managers can improve personal performance and productivity and, in the process, become better managers of those they lead.

Probleme dürfen kompliziert sein - gute Lösungen hingegen nicht, sagen die Eliteprofessoren Donald Sull und Kathleen Eisenhardt. Sie sind überzeugt: Gerade in anspruchsvollen, vertrackten Situationen kommt man mit einfachen Regeln - "Simple Rules" - viel eher ans Ziel. Sull und Eisenhardt belegen ihre These mit einer Vielzahl an Beispielen aus Privatleben, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft. Anekdoten und Tipps aus der Unternehmenswelt wechseln sich ab mit solchen zur Partnersuche oder zum Diäthalten. Es gelingt dem Autorenpaar bestens, wissenschaftliche Sachverhalte verständlich dazustellen und in einem praktischen Ratgeber zu bündeln. Was ganz nützlich gewesen wäre, ist eine übersichtliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für die Erarbeitung eigener Simple Rules, aber ansonsten gibt es nichts auszusetzen. getAbstract empfiehlt das Buch insbesondere Unternehmensstrategen und Organisationsentwicklern. Aber profitieren kann davon jeder, der ab und zu vor einem Problem steht - also wirklich jeder