Management of Team Leadership in Extreme Context

The proper balance of managerial administrative-control and managerialteam-leadership depends upon the work context. After organizational proceduresare designed by work-process engineers managers and their direct reportsin the business units are charged to save our ship (SOS) by theiremployers. Their ships their business units often were built for calm seas.Unfortunately turbulent seas may happen unexpectedly and stress their ships and crews. Under extreme conditionsthe sea may put their ships squarely in harm's way. If they are not well prepared their chances of survivalare few and none. This book is about managing and being managed under conditions of extreme contextswhere only the special teams survive and prosper.