{"title":"Steve Tendon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the innovative world of Steve Tendon. Explore his works on Kanban and Hypervalue, offering fresh perspectives on project management and business strategy. Ideal for readers seeking efficiency and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"workmanship-of-leaders-book-steve-tendon-9781732019171","title":"The Workmanship of Leaders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeaders are never thought of as tradespeople. Yet their work - processing information to make consequential decisions - is a craft, and like any craft it can be done with workmanship or without.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Workmanship of Leaders\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a bracing answer: leaders operate inside a self-preserving negentropic system that absorbs and neutralizes virtually every attempt to change it. Drawing on systems thinking, the Cynefin framework, and decades of research, the author reframes leadership as a craft - an information-processing trade demanding a kind of workmanship and workmanlike diligence that is rarely cultivated at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative book introduces original concepts that explain countless failed transformations: the cascading systems of preconceptions, the distinction between preconception intelligence and fact-based intelligence, and why individually framed solutions can never resolve system problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is essential reading for executives, consultants, and anyone who has wondered why leadership everywhere is far more similar than different.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51048694513937,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51048698085649,"sku":"NIN9781732019171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1732019177.jpg?v=1751377217"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-steve-tendon.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}