Executive Leadership: A Practical
Guide to Managing Complexity
(Developmental Management) by
Ronnie Lessem
Requisite Organization
Practical guide to managing complexity. Essential reading for all
concerned with organization development, leadership and human resource
management. Paper.
Personal Review: Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to
Managing Complexity (Developmental Management) by Ronnie
Lessem
Elliott Jaques devised a system for analyzing executive ability based upon
an individual's time horizon--the maximum period of time in the future
toward which his/her work activities were aimed in their performance. He
reached this conclusion during extensive, longitudinal, empirical studies in
England. His series of books reflect his elaboration and extension of this

finding. He worked, for a time, with Dr. Owen Jacobs of the U.S. Army
(and then the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, ICAF). Jaques prior,
groundbreaking book, "Requisite Organization" is more pictorial than this
volume. The present work is oriented more towards practicing executives.
After reading it, I bought a copy and loaned it to my boss! I wish more
bosses would read it--and carefully at that. The charts provided are
engaging and thought-provoking. A less extensive volume, "Human
Capability" follows in sequence. Jaques wrote it with is wife and publisher:
Kathryn Cason. It is a fine sequel, adding some additional perspectives
and completing the charts that Jaques developed over time. These books
are most strongly recommended for serious students and practitioners of
management. They go far in attempting to move management into
management science.
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