Leading Difficult People

Activists and “difficult people”

Leading clever people.

In an economy driven by ideas and intellectual know-how, top executives recognize the importance of employing smart, highly creative people. But if clever people have one defining characteristic, it's that they do not want to be led. So what is a leader to do? The authors conducted more than 100 interviews with leaders and their clever people at major organizations such as PricewaterhouseCooper...

Property Leading the People?

REVIEWS The notion of bourgeois revolution—the idea that capitalist development has been intimately linked to the seizure and transformation of the state by rising class forces—has been fiercely contested over the past half-century. The political stakes in interpreting the cycle of events that opens with the Dutch Revolt and English Civil War, and continues with the American and French Revoluti...

Leading and Managing People in Education.indb

The first edition of this volume, published in 1997, was titled Managing People in Education. The addition of ‘leading’ to the title in the second and third editions illustrates the growing significance of this concept, notably in England, where a National College for School Leadership (our emphasis) was opened in November 2000. The inclusion of both terms in the title of this third edition sig...

Modeling Multi-Agent Chaos: Killing Aliens and Managing Difficult People

Understanding macro cognition is important for understanding how experts and lay people function in the real world, and for building safer, more effective socio-technical systems. We present a framework and a methodology for creating and evaluating process models of highly dynamic expert tasks and illustrate it with two models.