E-Leadership [Hardcover]

D. Quinn Mills (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2001

Corporate leadership and corporate culture must change to meet the demands of the new millennium: speed, globalisation and technology led. The successful leader must understand how these affect both their business and there employees. Harnessing people's talent to these emerging trends will result in change and success. Quinn Mills maps out a plan for e-Leadership, which follows 7 steps: 1) what can be realised in the world economy 2) developing a cooperation model 3) developing global opportunities 4) changing corporate mindset from local to global 5) developing skills alongside emerging trends 6) avoiding pitfalls 7) putting new techniques to work

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About the Author

D. Quinn Mills, Ph.D. is a professor at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of several acclaimed books on business and management, including Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM and The GEM Principle: Six Steps to a High Performance Organization. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (January 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735202257
• ISBN-13: 978-0735202252
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,646,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not "e-", but contains interesting management ideas, April 14, 2001

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Scott C. Withrow (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-Leadership (Hardcover)

The title is a bit misleading, with the focus of the book more on Harvard MBA management techniques than Internet insight. But true to its mission, the book contains a number of useful ideas about management strategies for the 21st Century. In particular, the book challenges the notion of the traditional hierachical organization chart in favor of relationship networks enabled by the Internet. The book is well written and is an easy read. The stock option compensation idea is out-dated in light of the NASDAQ crash, but many other ideas are intriguing applications of Internet technology.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Quinn Mills unlikely candidate for e-leadership, March 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: E-Leadership (Hardcover)

E-leadership represents Mills' attempt to re-invent himself for the New Economy. He does not succeed.

While Mills has done a fairly good job of gathering a series of individual profiles, he fails to provide a philosophical framework for understanding the central question:

"What qualities are required for leadership in the newly wired world?"

In addition, like many Web-centric management books of this vintage, many of the protagonists and their lessons seem outdated in the era of the post-crash NASDAQ.

While Mills, a former leader in the field of labor relations, brings a great deal of experience to his subject, he fails to bring new insights or disciplined inquiry.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Promising - Push deeper, June 7, 2001

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Charles M. Savage "Author - Fifth Generation ... (Munich, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-Leadership (Hardcover)

The book begins with wonderful promise, identifying the four key elements of the new economy: business arrays, lattice organizations, global mindsets and speed. These are indeed the key elements, but Mills does not push hard or deep enought to really mine the context he has well described. For example, how do arrays relate to electronic marketplaces and portals? What are the values really needed for the new culture? And with speed, this means our firm needs to connect electronically with other firms to seize the opportunity, what of XML for example in helping this to happen. Then the book throws in a couple of unrelated chapters with no tie into the rest, and it finished with a weak ending. We certainly expect more and Mills is more than able to give us more depth and wisdom. Keep at it!