Frontiers of Leadership

There are many aphorisms and assumptions surrounding leadership - which of them can be relied upon? Can we identify the qualities that make a good leader? Are the characteristics that make a leader unchanging throughout time? Are leadership styles influenced by a person's background or sex? In short, are leaders born or bred? This book presents current thinking about the phenomenon of leadership with nearly 100 articles from leading authorities including: Rosabeth Moss Kanter John Harvey-Jones Tom Peters Peter Drucker Charles Handy John Katter Meredith Belbin Whether you study leaders, aspire to be one, or have to pot and develop the leaders of tomorrow the book will be enlightening reading. Ethics and leadership; women as leaders; leading in a crisi; and leadership in a global market-place - these are some of the many topics covered in the book. A separate section discusses how leaders are developed and how changing attitudes to what sort of leaders we now require have affected approaches and techniques. "Leadership is an endless subject and endlessly interesting because you can never get your conceptual arms around it" says Warren Bennin, world authority on leadership. Discover how he and other distinguished consultants, business people and academics have tried and succeeded.

The Contributors ix Introduction xix PART I DEFINITION Chapter 1 Leadership and Management Is There a Difference? 3 Chapter 2 Leadership: The Value of Military Precedents 29 Chapter 3 Leadership in Business: The Modern Characteristics 65 Chapter 4 Leadership: A View from the Front 83 Chapter 5 Leadership and Creativity 105 Chapter 6 Crisis Leadership 129 Chapter 7 Leadership, Ethics and the Environment 147 Chapter 8 Leadership and the Non-Profit Organization 203 Chapter 9 National Attitudes to Leadership 221 Chapter 10 Leadership and the Global Marketplace 249 Chapter 11 Leadership and the Senior Management Team 263 Chapter 12 Women as Leaders 293 Chapter 13 Leadership Past, Present and Future 327 PART II DEVELOPMENT Chapter 14 Leaders: Born or Bred 357 Chapter 15 Selecting Leaders: The Role of Fast Tracks an Succession Planning 387 Chapter 16 How Leaders Learn 419 Chapter 17 Leadership through Outdoor Training 451 Chapter 18 Leadership and Team-Building 467 Chapter 19 Developing Women as Leaders 491 Chapter 20 Developing International Leaders 525 Chapter 21 Why Leaders Fail 537 Index 577