New organisational styles need new styles of leadership

The paradox of leadership is of managing oneself first. What you spend your time doing is central to the classic differentiation between leaders and managers.

New Organisational Styles Need New Styles of Leadership

Martyn Brown

Organisations are changing. Conventional organisations are being upstaged by a new breed. It is perhaps significant that a book about a company ranked No.1 in a best company to work for survey, and among the top 10 of Americas most admired companies has been called nuts. Things are a little off-beat at highly profitable Southwest Airlines, where chairman and CEO Herb Kelleher appears in ads dressed as Elvis, where new hires have to have a sense of humour and where pilots have been known to load luggage. Southwest offers no...

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