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The Accountable Leader – Developing Effective Leadership Through Managerial Accountability

Autor Brian Dive
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iul 2008
The Accountable Leader is centred around three themes - leadership, accountability and organizational structure, and explores what it means for managers to be held to account at all levels in an organization. It will show that most leadership related problems arise from the ineffectiveness of organisational structures that lack accountable jobs. Complete with case study material and international examples, The Accountable Leader brings home the importance of accountability as the necessary and robust platform for the assessment of potential leaders and leadership development - and demonstrates how clear accountability enables managers to achieve much more within their roles. The Accountable Leader was prestigiously voted one of 'The Thirty Best Business Books of 2008' by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, USA.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780749451608
ISBN-10: 0749451602
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Kogan Page

Cuprins

Introduction  
Part 1
Chapter 1: Accountable for success           
Held to account – what does it mean?          
Accountability, organization design and effective leadership           
Accountability: what does it mean?  
Why is accountability important?      
The link to authority  
Teams and shared accountability       
What is management accountability?
Personal fulfilment on the front line  
The Accountable Leader Chapter 1: Key points       
Chapter 2: Organizing for accountability  
Hierarchy: the response to increasing complexity      
The importance of a sound organizational platform  
What makes for an accountable organization in which leaders are held to account?
The importance of organizations being ‘in flow’       
The Accountable Leader Chapter 2: Key points       
Chapter 3: Leaders and leadership development 
The Napoleon syndrome        
Leadership versus management: a barren dichotomy
A key distinction       
What is meant by leadership?
The issue of talent      
Leadership pipeline – what pipeline? 
Leadership development in the organization 
Job evaluation: status, grades and ranks        
Self-actualization       
The Accountable Leader Chapter 3: Key points       
Chapter 4: Holding leaders to account: leadership by design      
The DMA Solution Set          
What is Decision Making Accountability?    
The importance of conceptual integration     
The link to business strategy  
Management layers and work levels  
The Seven Elements of DMA
The Accountable Leader Chapter 4: Key points       
 
Part 2
Chapter 5: Held to account at the front line          
On the level    
At the sharp end        
The Seven Elements at the front line 
Challenges at the front line    
The supervisory role in the first level of accountability         
Support roles and their link to authority        
The supervisory challenge at the front line: a ‘spanner in the works’?          
Spans of control         
The well-organized customer service front line         
Warning signs: typical issues resulting from multiple tiers of front line supervision
Possible next steps     
The Accountable Leader Chapter 5: Key points       
Chapter 6: Managing the front line           
A rule of thumb: organize for value from the front line        
The Seven Elements at the second level of accountability    
Implications for management
The problem with professionals         
Attention: spans         
Key steps to define the optimum span of control      
The span of control questions
The advantages and shortcomings of narrow and wide spans          
Layers: redressing the balance           
The Accountable Leader Chapter 6: Key points       
Chapter 7: Managing the managers           
The essence of Level 3 accountability           
Issues at Level 3        
The business unit        
Automation    
Organization design problems at Level 3      
How it works in practice: a Work Level 3 case study           
Dwell-time at Level 3
The Accountable Leader Chapter 7: Key points       
Chapter 8: Managing on a global stage     
Strategic accountability         
When is a regional headquarters justified?    
What does the CHQ do?       
Reporting links           
 
Part 3
Chapter 9: Organizational design accountability and leadership in practice     
Leadership development schemes and why they fail
Organization design is critical to leadership development    
Operational and strategic work: identifying the dividing line           
Performance is no guarantee of promotion    
The importance of boundary moves  
Faulty organization design masks the identification of talent           
Confusion about values, skills and competencies      
The way forward?      
The Accountable Leader Chapter 9: Key points       
Chapter 10: Leadership development schemes: how can they succeed?
The challenge 
The key steps to identifying and developing leaders
Pulling the threads together   
The Accountable Leader Chapter 10: Key points     
Chapter 11: Tracking a successful leader  
The era of the inclusive leader           
A Level 8 career track
Advising leaders at Levels 6 and above        
The Accountable Leader Chapter 11: Key points     
Chapter 12: The accountable leader: 20 key ideas           
20 key ideas in this book       
           

Recenzii

"Useful correctives to organization architecture and accountability." -- Leading Blog

Notă biografică

Brian Dive runs his own business, DMA Consultancy (www.dmaconsultancy.com) and is a senior partner in Panthea Leadership consultancy (www.panthealeaderhip.com).

Descriere

Management consultant Dive explores the relationship between leadership, accountability, and organizational structure. He argues that the majority of leadership-related problems arise not from ineffective individuals but from organizational structures that lack accountable jobs.