Leadership (Enhancing Leadership Through Experience Accumulation)

Author: Hagens
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This is an outstanding introductory textbook on leadership, which comprehensively introduces and analyzes the latest developments in leadership skills such as team building, empowerment, and coaching using examples of historical and modern distinguished leaders. It also provides a brand-new research methodology in leadership studies. The author utilizes accumulated experience, anecdotes, stories, and discoveries to create an engaging, humanized, and scholarly textbook. The book primarily focuses on the three-factor framework of leadership interaction: leadership is the result of the interaction among the leader, followers, and the situation. Finally, the book offers practical leadership skills. It includes a comprehensive and detailed review of classic leadership theories, as well as anecdotes from renowned leaders—Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Konosuke Matsushita—which provide a realistic backdrop for analyzing classic theories. Numerous lesser-known supplementary reading materials and timely quotes are interspersed throughout the book, adding more fun and appeal. The book's unique feature lies in the perfect balance between leadership theory and practice, which will help students apply theoretical knowledge and research findings to their work.