Books in the Developmental Management series

Strong managerial leadership is a major factor in competitiveness and effectiveness in business. Companies must establish a managerial organization structure that puts competent managerial leaders into suitable roles. The aim of this practical text is to provide a foundation for leadership at a down--to--earth and understandable level.

Beyond Leadership has been written to enable practitioners and students of leadership to manage uncertainty, diversity, conflict, and complexity. Its lead authors are American, Asian and Afro-European, and this range of perspective is reflected in the individual chapters.

This is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subject of intuition in management, a key element in business thinking and practice. The conventional management approach based on analytical problem solving is no longer adequate by itself to cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict.

aeo A pathbreaking, holistic view of cultural diversity in management. aeo Synthesizes Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern cultural views. aeo Brings rationalism, pragmatism, holism and humanism into the management discussion.

Davis shows that the developed and developing world must now pursue a sustainable developmenta requiring high levels of directed innovation. Industrial and commercial businesses of all kinds must bring about what amounts to a second industrial revolution.