Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Cary L. Cooper -- PART I. CHALLENGES OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT -- Four great conflicts of the twenty-first century / William H. Starbuck -- Discretionary leadership : from control/co-ordination to value co-creation through polylogue / Nada Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse -- Managers' lives, work, and careers in the twenty-first century / Prabhu Guptara -- Late twentieth-century management, the business school, and social capital / Ken Starkey, Sue Tempest -- A next challenge in organizational leadership / Chris Argyris -- Leadership in a non-linear world / Fred E. Fiedler, Joseph E. Garcia -- Leadership in the private sector : yesterday versus tomorrow / Gary P. Latham and Cynthia D. McCauley -- Twenty-first century leadership - the god of small things, or putting the 'ship' back into 'leadership' / Keith Grint -- An agenda for understanding individual leadership in corporate leadership systems / Anne Sigismund Huff, Kathrin Moeslein -- Leading human capital and the global economy / Hamish McRae -- The twenty-first century manager book : working on (and on and on...) / Howard Davies -- Managing performance through people - the challenge for tomorrow's organization / Geoff Armstrong -- Managing for creativity / Michael Bichard -- Herding cats or luxuriating in talent? Leadership and management of universities / David Rhind -- Management education and leadership / Sue Cox, Steve Fox -- What will tomorrow's organization/company look like over the next couple of decades? / Val Gooding.