Knowledge that Transforms

Carol Saunders, Jack William Jones, Temporal Sequences in Information Acquisition for Decision Making: A Focus on Source and Medium, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 29-46

The article reviews the book “Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex,” by William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte.

George P. Huber, A Theory of the Effects of Advanced Information Technologies on Organizational Design, Intelligence, and Decision Making, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 47-71

The article presents a review of the book “Crucial Decisions: Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis Management,” by Irving L. Janis.

In this new book, Jay A. Conger reveals how the charismatic leader's qualities of creativity, inspiration, unconventionality, vision, and risk-taking can help bring about radical change in organizations damaged by long periods of inertia - and shows why we need charismatic leadership now more than ever before. Drawing on findings from organizational behavior, sociology, social psychology, political science, and his own research - as well as on illustrations from the careers of Steve Jobs, Lee Iacocca, Mary Kay, John DeLorean, Ross Perot, and others - the author dispels the myths about charisma and identifies the specific practices that set charismatic leadership apart to help show how and why these individuals succeed where others may fail.

article reviews the book The New Leadership: Managing Participation in Organizations, by Victor H. Vroom and Arthur G. Jago.