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LEADERSHIP: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence Barbara Kellerman Format: Hardcover, 352pp. ISBN: 9780071633840 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: July 23, 2010 Average Customer Review: For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024 Description and Reviews From The Publisher: Bolster your leadership literacy—and improve your performance as a leader or manager. Leadership, says author, leadership expert, and Harvard Professor Barbara Kellerman, "is all about what leaders should learn—but it is decidedly not, deliberately not, about what leadership education has lately come to look like." Instead, Leadership is a concise yet expansive collection of great leadership literature that has stood the test of time. As Kellerman makes clear in her extensive, authoritative commentaries, every single selection has had, and continues to have, an impact on how and what we think about what it means to lead. And every single one has had an impact on leadership as an area of intellectual inquiry—as well as on the course of human history. Part I of Leadership consists of writings about leadership:
For leaders, by leaders, about what it means to lead. Get the great leadership literature—at your fingertips. In Leadership, you'll find the most seminal and salient leadership lessons from among a list of great men and women, including: Sigmund Freud W.E.B. Du Bois Mary Parker Follett Vladimir Lenin Confucius Sojourner Truth Stanley Milgram Saul Alinsky Hannah Arendt Thomas Hobbes Mahatma Gandhi Leo Tolstoy Nelson Mandela Peter Singer Mary Wollstonecraft Martin Luther King, Jr. Betty Friedan Larry Kramer and more… About the Author Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Harvard Business Review, and she has appeared on CBS, NBC, NPR, and CNN. She is author and editor of many books on leadership, most recently Bad Leadership and Followership. Kellerman is ranked by Forbes.com as among the "Top 50 Business Thinkers" (2009), and by Leadership Excellence in the top 15 of 100 "best minds on leadership" (2008-2009). Find Items On Similar Subjects Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders |
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