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Dilemmas Of Leadership

This important new text provides a thematic examination of the most influential ideas and writings on leadership. It creates order from the chaos of leadership literature, and its structure, style and original approach encourages reader reflection.

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  • "This important new text provides a thematic examination of the most influential ideas and writings on leadership. It creates order from the chaos of leadership literature, and its structure, style and original approach encourages reader reflection."@en
  • "Leadership, the practice of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students. Readers are invited to make a series of metaphorical journeys of discovery, thematically organized around fundamental dilemmas within the field of leadership studies. Building on the success of previous editions, the text uses a simple map-based approach to consider dilemmas such as:Is a leader born or made? How are tensions between ethical dilemmas and economic self-in."@en
  • "In this essential new text, Rickards and Clark encourage students and practitioners alike to delve deeper into leadership complexities and to discover what's new and important by testing and re-drawing their leadership 'maps': their aspirations of leadership. This exciting text reviews issues such as transactional leadership, transformational leadership, 5th level leadership, servant leadership, and the management of ethical dilemmas, and in illustrating the confusions and contradictions of leadership, it develops an approach that will prove invaluable. Important issues covered include: trust based leadership; social identity; explanations of leadership; distributed leadership; and, 'tipping point' theory of transformational change. The book's structure, insightful writing style and original approach encourage readers to reflect critically on the relationship between theory and practice as each theme is addressed and accompanying case studies examined."
  • "Leadership, as a way of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students. Building on the success of the first edition, this text utilises an easy to follow, map-based approach to take the reader on a journey through the various fundamental dilemmas apparent within leadership studies, dilemmas such as: Is a leader born or made? How are tensions between ethical dilemmas and economic self-interest resolved? How does a leader's desire for control b."@en
  • "<P>Building upon the success of the first edition and complemented by an array of student-friendly features, including case studies and videos, this text takes the reader through a journey of dilemmas apparent within leadership studies.</P>"

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