Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership. Its aim is to advance understanding along many dimensions of the shared leadership phenomenon: its dynamics, moderators, appropriate settings, facilitating factors, contingencies, measurement, practice implications, and directions for the future. The volume provides a realistic and practical discussion of the benefits, as well as the risks and problems, associated with shared leadership. It will serve as an indispensable guide for researchers and practicing managers in identifying where and when shared leadership may be appropriate for organizations and teams.

Product Description: This outstanding work reveals how boards governing 21st-century organizations can change their practices and align their principles to successfully govern the organization of the new economy. The authors propose that judging a board's effectiveness should be done not in a "shareholder" context but in a "stakeholder" context instead...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Drawing together the insights of today's top experts on business management and corporate change, an up-to-date and informative handbook shows executives how to use the latest principles and practices to manage and prosper from change. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book not only integrates the growing body of research and theory on charismatic leadership, but also pushes back the frontiers of our knowledge by introducing new theories and insights. The authors present a comprehensive model of the charismatic leadership process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Details a new management model built around persuasion and teamwork, illustrating ways to implement this management style and the tools to become an effective manager (view table of contents)

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Examines the goals, techniques, strengths, and weaknesses of five popular leadership programs and offers insight into the role training plays in the development of leadership (view table of contents)

Product Description: Find out what really makes charismatic leaders tick. Here, author Jay Conger analysis the things leaders do that make their subordinates more self-assured, optimistic and productive. He reveals how the charismatic leader's qualities can revitalize organizations damaged by long periods of inertia, and why we need charismatic leadership now more than ever before...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents thirteen original chapters by experts in a variety of fields to provide a substantive, concrete analysis of how charismatic leadership functions in business. Illustrates what makes charismatic leaders unique with examples of leaders such as Lee Iacocca and Rene Levesque...read more

Product Description: Presents thirteen original chapters by experts in a variety of fields to provide a substantive, concrete analysis of how charismatic leadership functions in business. Illustrates what makes charismatic leaders unique with examples of leaders such as Lee Iacocca and Rene Levesque...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)