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Title: The Nature of Leadership by John Antonakis, Anna T. Cianciolo, Robert J. Sternberg ISBN: 0-7619-2715-8 Publisher: SAGE Publications Pub. Date: 07 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Helpful for those interested in the history of leadership.
Comment: This book has been very helpful. Especially the first chapter. It's the first time, really, that I have understood how leadership, as a body of research, evolved. Antonakis, Ciansiolo, and Sternberg divided the ways in which leadership models have been developed into 8 schools, classifying them according to the period they generated research interest and specifically how popular they were. Their classificaiton scheme has made me able to sort out and distinguish the various models of leadership. The leadership schools include:
*Trait (traits/attributes of leaders)
*Behavioral (types of behaviors linked to leadership)
*Contingency (how the situation is a moderator of leadership)
*Contextual (contextual factors inhibiting leadership displayed)
*Skeptics (those arguing that leadership doesn't matter/exist)
*Relational (describing the nature of relations between leaders/followers)
*New Leadership (charismatic and transformational leadership)
*Information processing (cognitive perspectives of leadership)
The book is based on the above 8 schools, and more. I think the book is realy useful for someone who is interested in leadership from a historical or a research perspective.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not the kind of book you¿d buy at an airport bookstore!
Comment: This book provides an accessible review of leadership. Various models are presented that take stock of the past and the present. Proposed future models and approaches and also discussed. The book will appeal to practitioners but it is mostly targeted to researchers or human resources specialists. More than half the chapters will be easily read by practitioners (e.g., the chapter by Bennis on authentic leadership, Eagly and Carli on gender differences, Den Hartog and Dickson on leadership and culture, Cuilla on ethics, London and Maurer on leadership development, Sashkin on transformational leadership, etc.).
The more scientific chapters are also readable and quite useful. Not in the sense that they give a toolbox to managers about what to do to improve their leadership but on knowing which leader models are related to effectiveness (useful for interventions), traits or personality characteristics that predict leadership (useful for selection), and so forth. This book is definitely not a "how to guide" that you'd find at an airport bookstore. Rather, it is a book you'd find at a business school library.
As a director of organizational development in a large manufacturing multinational, I recommend this book in particular because the authors have ensured to present models that have been demonstrated to work based on scientific criteria. In one of the chapters (on Methods for Studying Leadership, I believe) they make the analogy that using leadership products is like using medicines. Educated and discerning people would not take medicines prescribed by a witchdoctor. Unfortunately, practitioners listen more to witchdoctors (consultants who are rather convincing and motivated to make a quick buck) and less to medical doctors (trained specialists who know what works).
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: This is quite an interesting book on leadership. Most chapters are quite easy to follow if you are not an expert on leadership.
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Title: Propaganda Techniques by Henry T. Conserva ISBN: 1410704963 Publisher: Authorhouse Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Somebodies and Nobodies : Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W. Fuller ISBN: 086571486X Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Leadership : Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse ISBN: 076192566X Publisher: SAGE Publications Pub. Date: 07 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
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Title: The Active Life : A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring by Parker J. Palmer, Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787949345 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 21 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy by Christopher Phillips ISBN: 0393051579 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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