Leadership at the Crossroads

Summary

What is leadership? Not only has that question been debated since the beginning of human culture and society, but it's a moving target based on the definer, and the epoch. The definition can be thought-provoking and profound: "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him," (Lao Tzu, 6th century BC ). Or the profundity may lie shrouded in the prosaic: "A leader is one who has followers," (Peter Drucker, 20th century). However you define the concept, today's challenges for leaders of all stripes are monumental, and the need for effective leadership is huge. More than anything, this set travels farther and digs deeper than most leadership books. It takes us from mere explanations of leadership to an understanding of it as part of the human condition. Reading it should be at the top of the to-do list for any leader in any era.

Preface

Introduction: A Contemporary Social Psychology of Leadership
A Contemporary Social Psychology of Leadership
Personality and Leadership
Social Psychology and Charismatic Leadership
Knocking on Heavens Door: The Social Psychological Dynamics of Charismatic Leadership
Social Identity Theory of Leadership
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: Implications for Leader Development
Social Cognitive Perspectives on Leadership
Seeing and Being a Leader: The Perceptual, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Roots of Conferred Influence
Presidential Greatness and its Socio-Psychological Significance: Individual or Situation? Performance or Attribution?
The Unbearable Lightness of Debating: Performance Ambiguity and Social Influence
Social Stigma and Leadership: A Long Climb up a Slippery Ladder
Deifying the Dead and Downtrodden: Sympathetic Figures as Inspirational Leaders
Persuasion and Leadership
What it Takes to Succeed: An Examination of the Relationship Between Negotiators Implicit Beliefs and Performance
Presidential Leadership and Group Folly: Reappraising the Role of Groupthink in the Bay of Pigs Decisions
Self Regulation and Leadership: Implications for Leader Performance and Leader Development
Evolution and the Social Psychology of Leadership: The Mismatch Hypothesis
Harnessing Power to Capture Leadership
Morality as a Foundation of Leadership and a Constraint on Deference to Authority
About the Editors and Contributors

Preface
Leadership, Ethics, and the Problem of Dirty Hands
Leadership, Cognition, and the Politics of Manipulation
Leadership, Structure, and Agency: FRD Re-examined
Presidential Leadership: A Dyadic Model
Making the Vision a Reality: Presidential Leadership in Congress
Leadership and the Supreme Court: First among Equals?
Leading a New Organization: Ridge, Chertoff, and the Department of Homeland Security
American Leadership of the International Community: The Role of the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Public Leadership in the Political
When the People Lead: Public Opinion and the Direction of Democratic Government
Leading Elite Opinion: Law Reviews and the Distortion of Scholarship
Women and Political Leadership
About the Editors and Contributor

Introduction
Preface
Of Gods and Commodores: Leadership in Melvilles Moby-Dick
The Relevance of Don Quixote to Leadership Studies: Nostalgia, Cynicism, and Ambivalence
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