Learning Agility. Center for Public Leadership - Harvard. Real World Group. Complex Adaptive Leadership - Oblensky. Complexity Leadership - Uhl-Bien. By Mary Uhl-BienRuss Marion This book introduces leadership and organizational scholars to the potential of complexity science for broadening leadership study beyond its traditional focus on leaders’ actions and influence, to a consideration of leadership as a broader, dynamically and interactive organizing process. The book offers a primer on complexity science and its applications to organization studies, and compares the logic of complexity science with those underlying traditional leadership approaches.
It describes methodological approaches for studying leadership from a complexity perspective, and offers examples of applications of complexity science to leadership theory. Chapters are written by top scholars in complexity and leadership theory. TABLE OF CONTENTS Series Introduction. COMPLEXITY LEADERSHIP THEORY: Shifting Leadership From the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era Leadership models of the last century have been products of top-down, bureaucratic paradigms.