Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control

Douglas Long’s PhD is in organisational psychology. He has taught at universities in Australia and the USA, including what is now part of Monash University and the RMIT Graduate College of Management in Australia, and Drexel University in the US. He researched, designed, and delivered the Leadership in Senior Management Programme at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney and has conducted executive leadership programmes at the Australian Graduate School of Management. He now supervises doctoral candidates at Southern Cross University Graduate College of Management. As an active consultant specialising in leadership and change with public and private sector clients throughout Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia, he has facilitated major change in large organisations. He has been a keynote speaker at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, The Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Brazil, and the USA.

• Contents: Prologue; Introduction; Part 1 Understand the Past: The background to third generation leadership; Leadership in context; Understanding first generation leadership; Understanding second generation leadership. Part 2 Live in the Present: Third generation leadership (3G leaders); The brain's areas of control; Values and world views; Developing 3G leaders and third generation leadership; Communication - the key to third generation leadership; Third generation leadership structures; Third generation leadership and accountability. Part 3 Create the Future: Self-confident people - the effect of third generation leadership; Dealing with the recalcitrant!; Third generation leadership families; Third generation leadership in the workplace; A third generation leadership world; Facilitating the shift to a third generation leadership world; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.

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