Although journal articles often take pride of place on many academics’ CVs in our contemporary academic context, books still offer a format in which important ideas can be introduced and fully developed. There is a satisfaction associated with following an argument through a number of chapters, delving into the weft and weave of how a construct is formed and anticipating its implications, which is hard to experience within an 8000 word journal article. Think of seminal ideas in leadership and organizational studies: could James MacGregor Burns have conveyed the nuances of transforming leadership in a form other than a book? Imagine what would have been lost had Gareth Morgan’s Images of Organization been slashed to a journal article or two. The landscape of a book enabled these authors and so many others to steadily unfold their ideas in the unhurried way possible in texts of over 50,000 words. Books provide the space to convince, to transform a reader’s worldview and maybe to rearrange something in their hearts as well.

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编者的话：将书评介绍给领导层

尽管在我们当代的学术背景下，期刊文章通常会以许多学者的简历为荣，但书籍仍然提供了一种形式，可以引入和充分发展重要的思想。通过多个章节来讨论一个论点，深入研究结构的形成方式并预测其含义，这是令人满意的，这在8000字的期刊文章中很难体验到。想想领导力和组织研究中的开创性思想：詹姆斯·麦格雷戈·伯恩斯（James MacGregor Burns）是否可以用书本以外的形式传达转变领导力的细微差别？想象一下，如果有Gareth Morgan的组织形象，将会失去什么被削减为一两本期刊文章。一本书的风景使这些作者和许多其他作者能够以轻松自如的方式稳定地展现他们的想法，而这些想法可能超过50,000个单词。书籍提供了说服，改变读者的世界观以及也许重新排列他们内心世界的空间。