In organizations, there are always situations that can't be fixed with top-down directives. Often the only thing left to do is to craft cooperative relationships through understanding, power, or trust. The concept of lateral leadingleading to the side brings together ideas about how we can create processes of understanding, construct arenas of power, and build trusting (or mistrusting) relationships.

Approaches to leadership beyond hierarchical authority The interplay of power, trust and understanding in organizations A guide for practitioners - aligned with newer approaches in organizational science

Autorentext
Stefan Kühl is professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and works as a consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles and Zurich. He studied sociology and history at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA), Université Paris-X-Nanterre (France) and the University of Oxford (UK).

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Lateral LeadershipIntroduction.- Chapter 2. Power, Understanding and TrustThe Three Pillars of Lateral Leadership.- Chapter 3. The Interplay of the Three Mechanisms of Influence.- Chapter 4. Connection to the Formal Structure of Organizations.- Chapter 5. How Do You Lead Laterally Through Processes of Change? Applying the Concept.- Chapter 6. OutlookAdditional Search Fields for Further Developing the Concept of Lateral Leadership.