Leadership category: 28435 books
Global Leadership Perspectives
Insights and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
A critical, global counterpoint to more western-centric texts that will appeal to critical leadership scholars, those teaching leadership from a critical perspective and those teaching leadership with an international focus.
Split into two parts; its first part presents the local...
Leadership Dna
Why the Accepted Premise That Anyone Can Be a Leader Is Utterly False and the Main Cause of Poor Leadership in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Not many people are satisfied with the leaders we have in the public and private sectors. We are suffering from a severe lack of good leadershipeven though billions of dollars per year are spent on leadership training and development.
The root cause of this leadership vacuum is that leadership...
Humanise
Why Human-Centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Legendary leaders change the world by putting leadership at the service of humanity
Humanise is a comprehensive look at human-centred leadership, providing insight and guidance for those who want to change the world. A deep examination of the concept of moral leadership, this book examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Although not new, the concept of distributed (shared) leadership has re-emerged in recent years as one highly promising response to the complex challenges currently faced by schools. Responding productively to these challenges far exceeds the capacities of any individual leader. If schools are to...
by Viviane Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Student-Centered Leadership offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their...
Global Leadership
Research, Practice, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This text focuses on leading across cultural, economic, social, national, and political boundaries simultaneously. Global Leadership presents the field’s latest studies and practices in a succinct and engaging style that helps scholars, managers, and students grasp the complexities of being a global...
Smarter Teacher Leadership
Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This pioneering book shares a fresh vision for school leadership that connects current knowledge from mind, brain, and adult learning research to the process of teacher development and leadership. The authors provide clear steps to enable and inspire teachers to embrace leadership and collaboration...
Leadership
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
In this fully updated Eight Edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice, a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers. The new edition also includes a new Ethical Leadership...
Behavioral Leadership - The Managerial Grid
The Managerial Grid
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, Munich University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: The need for efficient leadership exists since business activities started. Leaders that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
School Leadership in Diverse Contexts demonstrates the centrality of context to understanding school leadership. It offers varied portrayals of leadership in a diverse range of distinct settings. Each chapter highlights the prominence of context in understanding the realities of school leadership,...
Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand
The Five Practices that Create Great Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The research-driven guide to the leadership behaviours which create more engaged workplaces and higher performance, Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand is a guidebook for what it takes, at any level of an organisation, to bring out the best in people. And full of insights not just...
by Valerie I. Sessa
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
College Student Leadership Development introduces the idea that we all play a part in producing leadership and that learning how to participate in the process of leadership is something that all college students need to learn as part of their college academic experience. Rather than approaching leadership...
by Ian Sutherland, Stephanie Jones, Professor Jonathan Gosling
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
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What are the main characteristics of effective leadership?
How can we understand leadership today?
This wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership....
by Linda Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
In this book, Linda Lambert takes a close look at leadership in schools, which today involves far more than a single leader. The author defines leadership as the learning processes among participants in a community--processes that lead toward a shared sense of purpose. Leadership capacity refers to...