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What are the main characteristics of effective leadership?

How can we understand leadership today?

This wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practised and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences.

An invaluable reference tool, this book offers insight into issues such as:

• Are leaders born or made?

• Authoritarian versus participative leadership

• The psychology of leaders and followers

• Leadership development

• Leadership styles, skills and functions

• Leadership in practice

This book is an indispensable guide to the central concepts of leadership for professionals and students alike.

Key Concepts in Leadership

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    A Paperback / softback by Jonathan Gosling, Ian Sutherland, Stephanie Jones

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      Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/08/2012
      ISBN13: 9781849205894, 978-1849205894
      ISBN10: 1849205892

      Description

      What are the main characteristics of effective leadership?

      How can we understand leadership today?

      This wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practised and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences.

      An invaluable reference tool, this book offers insight into issues such as:

      • Are leaders born or made?

      • Authoritarian versus participative leadership

      • The psychology of leaders and followers

      • Leadership development

      • Leadership styles, skills and functions

      • Leadership in practice

      This book is an indispensable guide to the central concepts of leadership for professionals and students alike.

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