The New Entrepreneurial Leader

The New Entrepreneurial Leader

by Kate McKone-SweetH. James Wilson and Danna Greenberg
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/08/2011

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In years past, the keywords for leaders were confidence, single-minded purpose, and strategic planning. But today’s vastly complex, globalized, and fast-evolving world requires a different kind of leadership. This game-changing book details a new approach—entrepreneurial leadership—developed at Babson College, the number-one school for entrepreneurship in the world. Entrepreneurial leadership is inspired by, but is separate from, entrepreneurship. It can be applied in any organizational situation, not just start-ups. Based on two years of extensive research, it embraces three principles that add up to a fundamentally new worldview of business and a new logic of decision making. First, rapid change and increasing uncertainty require leaders to be “cognitively ambidextrous,” able to shift between traditional “prediction logic” (choosing actions based on analysis) and “creation logic” (taking action despite considerable unknowns). Guiding this different way of thinking and acting is a new view of business, where simultaneous creation of social, environmental, and economic value is the order of the day. Finally, entrepreneurial leaders leverage their understanding of themselves and their social context to guide effective action. Each chapter offers concrete examples of how educators across all disciplines are integrating these ideas into their courses—and even their entire curricula. The New Entrepreneurial Leader lays out a comprehensive new paradigm for reinventing management education in order to mold leaders who will shape social and economic opportunity.

ISBN:
9781609940348
9781609940348
Category:
Entrepreneurship
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-08-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
H. James Wilson

San Francisco-based H. James (Jim) Wilson  is Managing Director of Information Technology and Business Research at Accenture Research.

He is the coauthor of What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking (Harvard Business Review Press).

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