Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference

by Susan R. Komives; Nance Lucas; Timothy R. McMahon

• ISBN13: 9780787909291
• ISBN10: 0787909297
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors' work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism.  

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(6)
Acknowledgments	xv	(2)
The Authors	xvii
Part One: Leadership for a Changing World	3	(104)
1. An Introduction to Leadership	3	(22)
2. The Changing Nature of Leadership	25	(42)
3. A New Way of Understanding Leadership	67	(40)
Part Two: Exploring Your Potential for Leadership	107	(58)
4. Understanding Yourself	107	(30)
5. Understanding Others	137	(28)
Part Three: Relationships, Environment, and the Practice of Leadership	165	(112)
6. Interacting in Teams and Groups	165	(30)
7. Understanding Complex Organizations	195	(32)
8. Building Coalitions and Communities	227	(20)
9. Leading with Integrity and Moral Purpose	247	(30)
Part Four: Leadership and Renewal	277	(38)
10. Why Renewal Is Vital to Groups and Organizations	277	(22)
11. The Mind, Body, and Soul of the Leader	299	(16)
References	315	(14)
Name Index	329	(5)
Subject Index	334