1st Edition

Unconventional Leadership What Henry Ford and Detroit Taught Me About Reinvention and Diversity

By Nancy Schlichting Copyright 2015
176 Pages
by Routledge

What does it take to lead the successful turnaround of four consecutive organizations? What does it take to run a $5 billion business in Detroit as the city struggles to emerge from municipal bankruptcy and its worst ongoing crisis ever? What does it take to be a female CEO who has come up against discrimination and personal attack? It takes "Unconventional Leadership," a style of leadership based... Read more
Introduction Unconventional Leadership: My Personal Journe, Chapter 1 Risk Rejection and Be Bold in Your Career, Chapter 2 Learn to Turn It Around, Chapter 3 Use Quality to Achieve High Performance: The Baldrige Framework, Chapter 4 Find the Disruptors in Your Organization—And Listen to Them, Chapter 5 Make a Large Company Feel Small, Chapter 6 Being Different: The Strength of Diversity, Chapter 7 Detroit: Partner for Renewal, Chapter 8 Face the Future, Notes, Index, Acknowledgments

Biography

Nancy Schlichting