Practicing Leadership: Principles and Applications - Couverture souple

Shriberg, Arthur; Shriberg, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 047008698X ISBN 13 : 9780470086988

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Shriberg Arthur Shriberg David

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Leadership is a Journey – Not a Destination In the age of team management and collaboration, leadership is an essential skill that needs to be uncovered and developed, as well as applied. In this book we encourage you to bring your unique background, experiences, and perceptions to the important discussion on leadership. Through a journey of discovery, we will meld your ideas and experiences with our own to help you develop your own special style of leadership. We invite you to embark on the quest to discover your true leadership skills. We use the journey as a metaphor for how you can understand leadership over the centuries. Practicing Leadership:

• includes commentary on the environment of leadership
• identifies common road blocks and provides direction on how to avoid them
• graphically depicts the journey through leadership paradigms suggesting important skills and approaches to effective leadership
• integrates the discussion of issues regarding diversity and internationalism
• offers discussions with current business and political leaders helping you understand how to develop your own leadership skills
• profiles noteworthy leaders including activists, politicians, military leaders, writers, and athletes such as Arthur Ashe, Jr., Mother Teresa, Vaclav Havel, Rachel Carson, Nelson Mandela, Mao Zedong, Sam Walton, and General Colin Powell
• details the contributions of a variety of disciplines, including psychology, management, communication, military sciences, the quality movement, political science, and philosophy.

Quatrième de couverture :

TAKE AN EXCITING JOURNEY THROUGH THE PARADIGMS OF LEADERSHIP

With the Second Edition of  PRACTICING LEADRSHIP you can get the skills and knowledge you need to become a highly effective leader. Featuring contributions from a variety of disciplines, including psychology., management, communications, military science, the quality movement, political science, and philosophy, the text takes you on a unique journey through the key paradigms that have helped shape some of today′s most widely respected world leaders.

Original essays by Stephen Covey, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, and John Pepper, along with profiles pf such real–world leaders as Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, John Wooden, Sam Walton, and Colin Powell, will help you understand how to develop your own personal set of leadership skills.

The Second Edition features:

• A new chapter on "Practicing Leadership in a Multicultural Society"
• New coverage of presidential leadership in Chapter 5
• New profiles of Warren Buffet, Barry and Eliot, Oprah Winfrey, Martin Luther, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lee Kuang Kew, King Hussein, Ceasar Chavez, Mohammed Ali, and others
• Original essays by Stephen Covey, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, and John Pepper
• Expanded chapters on Psychology, Management, Political Science, The Military, Communications, and Leadership Theory
• Summaries of recently published leadership texts, including Gardner, Bennis, and Covey, with links to text chapters

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 047008698X
• ISBN 13: 9780470086988
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 320