How leaders can take the moral risks necessary to create "masterpieces"--admirable, distinctive, and high-achieving businesses that create meaningful lives for customers, employees, and themselves. In
Leadership as Masterpiece Creation, Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, and Haridimos Tsoukas show how the humanities can help leaders create profitable, masterpiece organizations. Such organizations, they assert, are ones that possess the emotional and moral sensibilities of an artist, the wisdom of a statesperson, and the technical know-how of commerce. The authors draw on the works of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bernard Williams, Shakespeare, and Machiavelli to conceptualize moral risk-taking, and then on the actions of Churchill, Madam C. J. Walker, Anita Roddick, Jeff Bezos, and others to show how the humanities can help create admirable businesses today.
As management consultants and educators steeped in the humanities themselves, the authors discuss their experiences helping business leaders achieve successful masterpieces that bring good lives to many. After describing our contemporary business environment and examples of leaders who have created masterpiece organizations, the book turns to the basic skills of masterpiece creation: managing moods, building trust, listening for difference, and speaking truth to power. Then come the senior skills: moral risk-taking and creating a masterpiece organizational culture, strategy, and leadership style. Last, the authors explain why their leaders build an economy of gratitude.
A culturally ambitious and refreshing read,
Leadership as Masterpiece Creation is an invaluable volume for leaders of every stripe who wish to act daily with moral imagination.
如何領導者能夠承擔必要的道德風險，創造出令人欽佩、獨特且成就卓越的企業，為客戶、員工和自己創造有意義的生活。在《領導力如同創作傑作》一書中，查爾斯·斯皮諾薩（Charles Spinosa）、馬修·漢考克斯（Matthew Hancocks）和哈里迪莫斯·楚卡斯（Haridimos Tsoukas）展示了人文學科如何幫助領導者創造有利可圖的傑作組織。他們聲稱，這樣的組織擁有藝術家的情感和道德敏感性、政治家的智慧以及商業的技術知識。作者們借鑒尼采、海德格爾、伯納德·威廉斯、莎士比亞和馬基雅維利的作品來概念化道德風險承擔，然後通過丘吉爾、卡拉·瓊斯·沃克（Madam C. J. Walker）、安妮塔·羅迪克（Anita Roddick）、傑夫·貝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）等人的行動來展示人文學科如何幫助當今創造令人欽佩的企業。作為深受人文學科熏陶的管理顧問和教育者，作者們討論了自己幫助企業領導者實現成功傑作、為許多人帶來美好生活的經驗。在描述了我們當代的商業環境和創造傑作組織的領導者的例子之後，本書轉向傑作創作的基本技能：管理情緒、建立信任、聆聽差異和對權力說真話。然後是高級技能：承擔道德風險和創造傑作組織的文化、戰略和領導風格。最後，作者解釋了為什麼他們的領導者建立了一個感恩的經濟。《領導力如同創作傑作》是一本具有文化野心且耳目一新的讀物，對於希望每天以道德想像力行事的各種領導者來說，是一本寶貴的著作。
Charles Spinosa is a management consultant with more than 25 years of experience. His consulting portfolio ranges from start-ups to Global 1000 companies. He is coauthor of
Disclosing New Worlds (MIT Press).
Matthew Hancocks has over 25 years of consulting and coaching experience for growth businesses and market leaders from biotech to wind farms, insurance to logistics, and national heritage to temporary staffing.
Haridimos Tsoukas is Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus, and Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is the author of
Philosophical Organization Theory.
Charles Spinosa是一位擁有超過25年經驗的管理顧問。他的顧問服務範圍從初創企業到全球1000強公司。他是《揭示新世界》（MIT Press）的合著者。
Matthew Hancocks擁有超過25年的顧問和教練經驗，為生物科技、風力發電場、保險、物流、國家遺產和臨時人力派遣等成長型企業和市場領導者提供服務。
Haridimos Tsoukas是塞浦路斯大學哥倫比亞船舶管理戰略管理教授，也是華威商學院組織研究卓越研究環境教授。他是《哲學組織理論》的作者。
