Inside the Leader's Mind

Elizabeth Mellon has been Executive Director of Duke Corporate Education, a global learning and development corporation, since 2004. Previously she spent twelve years in the Department of Trade and Industry before taking a MBA and PhD at LBS. At LBS she was Professor of Organizational Behaviour and also served as Director of the Senior Executive Programme, the London Business School's flagship program for senior executives. During the same period, she also taught on, and directed, the School's Global Consortium Programme.

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionChapter 1: Five ways of thinking like a leaderChapter 2: No safety netChapter 3: Comfortable in discomfortChapter 4: Solid coreChapter 5: On my watch Chapter 6: I am the enterprise Chapter 7: Keep on developingEndnotesFurther reading Appendix 1:  Overview of the five ways of thinkingAppendix 2: Self-assessment questionnaire Index