Rational Leadership

Paul Brooker was born in Rarotonga, the Cook Islands in 1956 and was educated at Victoria University of Wellington and then Oxford University, where he gained an MPhil and DPhil. He then taught political science at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He became semi-retired in 2008 but continued publishing until fully retired in 2012. Since then he has still published an occasional book or chapter, such as the first edition of Rational Leadership.Margaret Hayward was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She was a journalist before becoming Private Secretary to NZ Prime Minister Norman Kirk and then wrote his biography. Following his death, she held managerial positions in the media, health, accountancy and farm machinery sectors. After an MBA, she lectured in business and later gained a PhD in Leadership. She has contributed to various books and academic journals, become an international rose judge and written several books on the genus rosa.

• Part 1: Developing Iconic Corporations 1: Rational Business Leadership 2: GM: Sloan's My Years With General Motors 3: Toyota: Ohno's Toyota Production System 4: McDonald's: Kroc's Grinding It Out 5: Wal-Mart: Walton's Made in America 6: Intel: Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive 7: eBay: Whitman's The Power of Many 8: Amazon: Bezos's Invent & Wander 9: GA: Armani's Giorgio Armani Part 2: Redeveloping Corporations 10: Leaders Rationally Redeveloping Corporations 11: Nike: Knight's Shoe Dog 12: Chrysler: Lee's Iacocca and Lutz's Guts 13: IBM: Gerstner's Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? 14: Apple: Redeveloped by Steve Jobs 15: Charisma and Rational Redevelopment 16: GE: Immelt's Hot Seat