Leadership with Synercube

1. Front Matter

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2. Leadership in a Changing World

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3. Synercube: A Scientific Theory for Shaping Efficient Organizational Relationship

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4. Synercube Culture and Cooperation Skills

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5. Style 7.1−: Dictator (To Head and to Rule)

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6. Style 7.1+: Paternalist (To Assign and to Manage)

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7. Style 1.7−: Adulator (Compliant and Agreeable)

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8. Style 1.7+: Soft-Hearted Enthusiast (Don’t Worry, Everything Will Be Alright)

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9. Style 4.4–: Formalist (Balancing and Compromising)

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10. Style 4.4+: Patriot (Pride and Persistence)

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    Pages 159-174

11. Style 1.1−: Indifferent (To Avoid and to Evade)

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    Pages 175-189

12. Style 1.1+: Inhibited, Unfulfilled (To Wait and Hope)

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    Pages 191-204

13. Style 7.7−: Opportunist (To Use and to Manipulate)

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    Pages 205-218

14. Style 7.7+: Ideal, Visionary (Devotion and Contribution)

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15. Conclusion: From Optimal Leadership Towards Optimal Culture

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Description of the Synercube Leadership Theory with numerous practical examples. 10 different leadership styles are described according to the dimensions people, task and values. The book enables the reader to conclude how people interact with each other in a company and how corporate power should be used in order to achieve excellence with the available resources. By this, a sound corporate culture is supported. Based on the Synercube Theory, the guidance of change under consideration of psychological and behavioural effects empowers to continuously and effective change. Managers of organizations of all sizes equally benefit.

• Organization Development
• Value-oriented leadership
• Three-dimensional leadership
• Corporate governance
• Excellence

• Psychologisches Institut , Moskau, Russia

  Anatoly Zankovsky

• Synercube GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany

  Christiane von der Heiden

Christiane von der Heiden (* 1982; née Thiele) studied Business Administration with focus on European Management at the school of applied sciences FHDW.

Since 2005 she worked in Sales and Customer Marketing at Mars, Inc. before starting to work for Grid International Germany in 2009. Today, Christiane von der Heiden is managing partner at Synercube GmbH and certified Synercube consultant. She is an expert in supporting international organizations in leadership and team development processes.

Prof. Dr. Anatoly Zankovsky (* 1954) studied Psychology and earned his PhD at Moscow State University in 1985. At the Academy of Sciences Prof. Zankovsky is head of the ABO-Psychology Department. His areas of research include personnel selection for the Russian Space Program, selection and training of managers, Organization Culture and Development, work motivation and the development and use of tests.

Since 2001, Prof. Zankovsky is Head of the Faculty of Psychology at the Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics and IT. He advises well-known companies in terms of Organization Development and Human Resource Management. Prof. Zankovsky wrote 8 books and more than 80 articles on Psychology and Management. 

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