Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader

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This book is designed to provide a comprehensive picture of the best thinking on leadership by the leading authorities in the field. Drawing on previously published work, this is an ideal volume for students, consultants and professionals to understand the depth and breadth of leadership thinking today. The topics covered include vision setting, ethics, dealing with change, leadership development, corporate culture, and organizational performance. This collection features the work of J-B authors such as Kouzes and Posner, Warren Bennis, Bob Quinn, Lee Bolman and Terry Deal, and Ed Schein among others. It also works by non J-B authors such as Jim Collins, Margaret Wheatley, Morgan McCall, Noel Tichy, Bill Bridges, Ron Heifetz, John Kotter, and Ken Blanchard, among others. Table Of Contents Introduction James M Kouzes Part I What Is Leadership? Leadership Basics Why are Leaders Important? Noel Tichy with Eli Cohen What Leaders Really Do John P Kotter Primal Leadership Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee The How to Be Leader Frances Hesselbein What is Leadership? Max DePree The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership James M Kouzes and Barry Z Posner Leadership Styles Reframing Leadership Lee G Bolman and Terrence E Deal Situational Leadership Paul Hersey and Kenneth H Blanchard The Servant as Leader Robert K Greenleaf The Case forCo-Leaders David A Heenan and Warren Bennis Part II Becoming A Leader The Heroic Journey Robert E Quinn Six Leadership Passages Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel The Derailment Conspiracy Morgan McCall Jr The Traces of Talent Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton Enhancing the Ability to Learn from Experience Ellen Van Velsor and Victoria A Guthrie Part III Developing Character Leadership is a Relationship James M Kouzes and Barry Z Posner Honest Work Joanne B Ciulla Why Amoral Leadership Doesn't Work James O'Toole The Discpline of Building Character Joseph L Badaracco, Jr Reframing Ethics and Spirit Lee G Bolman and Terrence E Deal Part IV Forming The Vision Where Tomorrow Begins: Finding the Right Vision Burt Nanus What Is Our Mission? Peter F Drucker Clock Building, Not Time Telling James C Collins and Jerry I Porras Be Your Own Seer Gary Hamel Part V Making It Happen The Learning Leader as Culture Manager Edgar H Schein Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in Your Workforce Gretchen M Spritzer and Robert E Quinn The Gap Nobody Knows Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan with Charles Burck Change: The Capacity of Life Margaret J Wheatley The Fear of Change and Why Risk is Necessary Robert E Quinn Leading Transition William Bridges and Susan Mitchell Bridges The Work of Leadership Ronald A Heifetz and Donald L Laurie