Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders

Part One: Leaders and the Organization
1. If I'm the Leader, Will Anyone Follow? A Definition of Leadership
2. Welcome to the Snake Pit: The New CEO
3. Boiled Frogs and Dancing Elephants: Change and Downsizing
4. Merger Fever: Managing Acquisition
5. Do You Like Singing the Company Song? Corporate Culture
6. A Cultural Tower of Babel: Managing Across Borders
7. Are You Sure You Want to Work Abroad? International Assignments
8. Do You Have the Right Stuff? The Making of a Global Leader
9. When the Future Is Now: Leadership for the Next Millennium
Part Two: Leaders and Individuals
10. Is Anatomy Really Destiny? Women as Leaders
11. Joining the Family Burlesque: Family Firms
12. Reaping the Whirlwind: Creativity at Work
13. CEOs Also Have the Blues: Succession and Retirement
14. Do Workaholics Have More Fun? Balancing Work and Pleasure
15. Dead Fish, Incorporated: Alexithymia in Organizations
16. Doing a Maxwell: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship
17. Why Work for a Genghis Khan? Identifying with the Aggressor
18. Leaders Who Go Off the Deep End: Narcissism and Hubris
19. Conclusion: In Praise of a Little Madness