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Oxford University Press Leadership : Classical Contemporary And Critical Approaches by Edited by Keith Grint
What is leadership? Are leaders made or born? Are the characteristics and challenges of leadership the same across time and cultures? Do leaders pull or are they pushed? Are leaders driven by needs that may be dysfunctional to the organizations they lead? Do women leaders behave differently from men? Should we look for models of business and organizational leadership in military organizations? These are all just some of the questions posed in this Reader which includes key statements from classical philosophy Plato, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli through to modern management writers Barnard, Kets de Vries, Fiedler, Rosener. The collection will be invaluable to students and managers taking a range of courses in business management and leadership training. In his Introduction, Keith Grint both surveys current thinking on leadership and provides an excellent `road map of the readings which are grouped under five headings: Classical, Traditional, Modern, Mythical, and Alternative.show more