Emperors with clothes on: The role of self-awareness in developing effective change leadership

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-385

  Higgs, Malcolm ^a   Rowland, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Transcend Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Stuckness'; Change leadership; Change success; Self awareness; Systemic thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960569469     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2010.516483     Document Type: Article

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