Leadership

Showing how successful leaders can master the artistic aspects of their work, this book guides readers to the ways that the leadership can be practiced and learned. It explores the art of leadership by examining the perspectives, training, and insights of artists, and also incorporates in-depth inte..

Through incisive critical argument and illustrative case studies this book offers a rare critical perspective on transformational leadership theory and presents an alternative approach...

The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The introductory essay describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The selected papers co..

The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The introductory essay describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The selected papers co..

The Future of Leadership considers how the rapid changes of today will affect the leaders of tomorrow. Renowned Leadership scholar Michael A. Genovese argues that one of the key challenges for future leaders will be to effectively and constructively manage the ‘hyper-change’ taking place both within..

This book critically analyzes Clinton's role as a transformative leader of global influence, focusing on her use of "smart power" foreign policy techniques, advocacy for women's rights, and the future of women's political leadership...

The premise of this title is that it is rare, if indeed impossible to find "perfect" managers that that is viewed as such by all those that serve under him/her. Therefore is it is better to strive to become a good enough manager, leading and meeting the needs of all. The movement to strive for excel..

In the 1970s and 1980s a new breed of management writers emerged, with a view to taking management theory, and practice, onto the next level of its evolution. However, somewhere along the way, the world of management and enterprise, took a wrong turn at the dawn of the nineties. Here, the author tak..

Ethical behaviour is one of the most important components of successful leadership yet this remains insufficiently investigated, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective. With the help of theory, empirical analysis and the relevant methodological apparatus, the authors fill the gap in the an..

The Leadership of Organizational Change offers a critical review of the evolution of leadership and organizational change for the past thirty-five years, taking stock of what we know (and do not know), and establishing how the study of the leadership of change should advance...

Strong leaders are essential to business success, which makes leadership development a business imperative in today’s competitive environment. Leaders are needed that can do more than manage - leaders are needed that can make a business great. In addition, there is increasing pressure on organizatio..

Strong leaders are essential to business success, which makes leadership development a business imperative in today’s competitive environment. Leaders are needed that can do more than manage - leaders are needed that can make a business great. In addition, there is increasing pressure on organizatio..