Contemporary Issues in Leadership

by Rosenbach, William E.; Taylor, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780813364568
• ISBN10: 0813364566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

Leadershipand leadership studiesare in flux. The fifth edition of this popular anthology continues its interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership. The new edition offers readings divided into four sections, respectively, on the human dimensions of leadership, on defining leadership values, on lessons from great leaders of the past, and the dilemmas and paradoxes of good leadership. Tapping the wisdom of 4 classic articles and 17 new readings, William Rosenbach and Robert Taylor present a renewed framework for understanding leaders and leadership from a contemporary perspective.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
PART 1 THE HUMAN DIMENSION	1	(78)
What Makes a Leader?	5	(14)
Daniel Goleman
A New Vision of Leadership	19	(24)
Marshall Sashkin
William E. Rosenbach
To Give Their Gifts: The Innovative, Transforming Leadership of Adaptive Work	43	(22)
Richard A. Couto
Do You Have the Will to Lead?	65	(8)
Polly LaBarre
Inside Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina Combines Discipline, New-Age Talk	73	(6)
David P. Hamilton
PART 2 DEFINING VALUES	79	(104)
Moral Person and Moral Manager: How Executives Develop a Reputation for Ethical Leadership	85	(16)
Linda Klebe Trevino
Laura Pincus Hartman
Michael Brown
Politics or Porcelain?	101	(10)
Robert Birnbaum
Crisis, Culture, and Charisma: The New Leader's Work in Public Organizations	111	(14)
Matthew Valle
Leading Learning Organizations	125	(6)
Peter Senge
A View About ``Vision,''	131	(12)
Neal Thornberry
The Evolving Paradigm of Leadership Development	143	(20)
Robert M. Fulmer
Followers for the Times: Engaging Employees in a Winning Partnership	163	(20)
Earl H. Potter III
William E. Rosenbach
Thane S. Pittman
PART 3 RETROSPECTIVES	183	(58)
Plato on Leadership	187	(22)
T. Takala
Napoleon's Tragic March Home from Moscow: Lessons in Hubris	209	(20)
Mark J. Kroll
Leslie A. Toombs
Peter Wright
The Greatest Man Churchill and Truman Ever Met	229	(4)
Albert R. Hunt
The Antileadership Vaccine	233	(8)
John W. Gardner
PART 4 DILEMMAS AND PARADOXES	241	(70)
The End of Leadership: Exemplary Leadership Is Impossible Without Full Inclusion, Initiatives, and Cooperation of Followers	247	(14)
Warren Bennis
Do We Really Want More Leaders in Business?	261	(14)
Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
Timothy Brown
M. Neil Browne
Nancy Kubasek
We Won't See Great Leaders Until We See Great Women Leaders	275	(6)
Harriet Rubin
Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons	281	(16)
Michael Maccoby
Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve	297	(14)
Jim Collins
About the Editors and Contributors	311