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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825368203321

Autore

Avolio Bruce J

Titolo

Leadership development in balance : made/born / / Bruce J. Avolio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2005

ISBN

1-135-70569-0

1-282-32284-2

9786612322846

1-4106-1181-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Stretching Views of Leadership Development; 2 One's Life Stream; 3 The Selfs: Image, Reflection, and Discovery; 4 Building Perspective; 5 Feedback to Inch and Leap Forward; 6 Reflection; 7 Mistakes and Trust; 8 E-Leadership Is Leadership Plus; 9 Leadership Development: What We Know We Know So Far; 10 Raising Leadership Development to Strategic Levels; 11 Down Stream Along the Full Range of Leadership; 12 Research Supporting What Has Been Said; References; Recommended Readings; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book, written by a leading scholar in leadership, takes readers through a very realistic look at what it takes to develop leadership competencies. Focusing on four major goals, this text:*provides the reader with a broader and deeper understanding of what constitutes authentic leadership development;*challenges a very basic notion that leaders are born versus made;*talks about the elements that comprise leadership development so readers are informed to ask the many providers of leadership development the right questions; and*develops full leadership potential.There