Leadership From Below: How the Internet Generation Redefines the Workplace (paperback)

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Leadership From Below explains how the workplace is being changed by ideas from Asia, Scandinavia, and the socially-networked internet. All managers – but especially the growing group of de facto managers – will take away usable leadership skills.

The Internet generation of interculturally minded, socially networked leaders is redefining the workplace. Management is slow to respond. Whether you are changing the rules, or watching the rules change, you need to read this book. How can you ground your leadership in the here and now?

“A must-read for any young manager looking to apply the lessons of eBay, Google and Facebook to the real world.”

— Julian Herbstein, Founder and CEO, Magic Fitness

 

“It is a book containing real strategies for real people, based on a philosophy of leadership and a way of thinking that at first seems so obvious, yet at the same time remains so elusive to most of us.”

— Espen Moe, PhD, Author of Governance, Growth and Global Leadership (2007);Professor of Political Science,
Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU

 

“Leadership from Below presents an important set of skills and concepts that anyone can use to maximize his or her potential influence and impact in an organization.”

— Barbara Larson, MBA, Executive Professor, Management and Organizational Development,
D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University