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Leadership in Change

In: The Rise of Cass Business School

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  • Allan P. O. Williams

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Tackling the leadership theme is not for the soft-hearted given the difficulties in its definition and conceptualisation. A working definition that is compatible with the strategic orientation used in analysing the School’s case history would be: Leadership in a business school setting is a dynamic process whereby one or more individuals initiate/support those changes that are conducive to the achievement of the school’s mission and objectives. This is not intended to be an all encompassing definition of leadership, but to reflect what appears to be the main function of leadership in the development of a business school across time. The ‘dynamic process’ mirrors the complex open system model described in the Chapter 14; ‘one or more individuals’ recognises that it is a process that is not confined to the top person; and ‘initiate/support those changes’ emphasises the critical proactive and reinforcing function of leadership in improving the school/environment fit in a continually changing world. This conceptualisation of leadership puts the management of change at its core.

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  • Allan P. O. Williams, 2006. "Leadership in Change," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Rise of Cass Business School, chapter 15, pages 200-220, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62481-8_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230624818_15
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