Leadership - What Really Matters A Handbook on Systemic Leadership

What is really important in day to day leadership?  How is a good and effective manager characterized? Daniel F. Pinnow describes the essentials of collaboration in the business environment in a very illustrative way.This standard reference book exis

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Daniel F. Pinnow

Leadership What Really Matters A Handbook on Systemic Leadership

Daniel F. Pinnow Akademie fu¨r Fu¨hrungskra¨fte der Wirtschaft GmbH ¨ berlingen 88662 U Germany [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-20246-9 e-ISBN 978-3-642-20247-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20247-6 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932215 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: estudio calamar, Berlin/Figueres Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Everything good has been thought before one has only to try, to think it again. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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Foreword

It is a great honor for me that my book has been translated into English as well as Chinese which makes the concept of systemic leadership accessible to an international audience. Furthermore, it shows how this concept is gaining momentum internationally. Although the cultural, social and historical premises are different in different regions of the world, the basic assumptions of systemic leadership concerning success and impact to be found in this book, especially in the second chapter, remain perfectly applicable all around the globe. Leadership is an art of creating a world that others would love to be a part of. This fundamental principle of leadership is valid worldwide. I am deeply convinced that we can only shape and bear this planet if executives focus on the aspects of appraisal, trust and network establishment and put less emphasis on authority and formal powers.

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Acknowledgments for the 5th Edition

Executives and authors have much in common. They share the loneliness of being decision-makers as well as the impact of their words in public. Yet at least in one situation authors have an advantage: they receive more immediate and spontaneous feedback. Authors are grateful for both positive and negative feedback, and in most cases they are also glad to receive meaningful praise. As a matter of course I was very pleased about the favorable reception of the book “Fu¨hren – Worauf es wirklich ankommt” not only in relation to the coverage in the media and the management community but