The Leaderment Codex - 13 Equations of Effective Power, Leadership, and Management

Most leadership books describe leadership as a mystery. This one treats it as a system.The Leaderment Codex by Hugh Gunn presents 13 equations that explain how leadership, management, trust, influence, legitimacy, power, and effective power work in practice. Drawing on real experience from submarines, boardrooms, and business, Gunn shows why some leaders create progress while others create chaos, bureaucracy, drift, and failure.This is not a book of vague inspiration or recycled business clichés. It is a practical and original framework that asks the questions most leadership writing avoids.Why do some leaders move systems while others only occupy positions? Why does trust grow in one organisation and collapse in another? Why can authority exist without results? Why does power sometimes prove useless when it matters most?Through examples drawn from politics, business, history, engineering, and high-stakes operational environments, Hugh Gunn reveals how variables such as conviction, congruence, humility, recognition, resources, autonomy, chaos, and administrative impotence combine to shape outcomes - and how they can be measured.If you want to understand leadership beyond style, personality, and theatre, this book offers a new model. Once you see the equations, you will never unsee them.

Pagina's: 438, Paperback, The Leadership Press