Leadership: All You Need To Know 2nd edition

David Pendleton,Adrian F. Furnham

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137554369
• Edición: 2
• Categoría: Betriebswirtschaft
• Categoría: Unternehmensstrategie

Ifyou only read one book on leadership this year, make it this one! Leadershipexperts David Pendleton and Adrian Furnham present an innovative model forleadership success in a turbulent world.When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. This thoroughlyupdated second edition shows how to make the kind of difference that allorganizations, both public and private sector, want and need. Early chaptersshow the powerful effect leadership can have on organizations; subsequentchapters present new ideas that are elegantly simple, conceptually coherent andradically different, based on the best research in the field. The ideas in thisbook have also been tested in major multinational organizations over recentyears. The aim is to provide leaders and those who work with them with apractical guide to how to increase the effectiveness of leadership in anyorganization.

Índice

• Foreword by Sir Rod Eddington: Great Leadership Matters
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• 1: The History of Thinking about Leadership
• 2: Leadership’s Impact on the Performance of Organisations
• 3: The Primary Colours of Leadership
• 4: Five Enablers of Leading
• 5: The Improbability of Being a  Complete Leader
• 6: Building a Leadership Team
• 7: Do You Have to Be Smart to Be a Leader?
• 8: The Impact of Personality on Leadership
• 9: When It All Goes Wrong: Leaders Who Fail and Derail
• 10: A Programme of Action
• Bibliography
• Index