1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970133503321

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965385403321

Titolo

Religion crossing boundaries : transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the new African diaspora / / edited by Afe Adogame and James V. Spickard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78712-8

9786612787126

90-04-18914-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Religion and the social order, , 1061-5210 ; ; 18

Altri autori (Persone)

AdogameAfeosemime U <1964-> (Afeosemime Unuose)

SpickardJames V

Disciplina

200.89/96

Soggetti

Black people - Africa - Religion

Black people - Religion

African diaspora

Globalization - Religious aspects

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.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / A. Adogame -- Introduction: Africa, The New African Diaspora, And Religious Transnationalism In A Global World / James V. Spickard and Afe Adogame -- 1. The Visa God: Would-Be Migrants And The Instrumentalization Of Religion / Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi -- 2. A Nigerian Mother In Israel At Coney Island: Authority, Gender, And Translation In A Transnational Yoruba Religion / Mei-Mei Sanford -- 3. Mobility And Belonging Among Transnational Congolese Pentecostal Congregations: Modernity And The Emergence Of Socioeconomic Differences / Géraldine Mossière -- 4. Mediating Spiritual Power: African Christianity, Transnationalism And The Media / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- 5. On The Inscrutability Of The Ways Of God: The Transnationalization Of Pentecostalism On The West African Coast / Joël Noret -- 6. Pentecostals Moving South-South: Brazilian And Ghanaian Transnationalism In Southern Africa / Linda Van De Kamp and Rijk Van Dijk -- 7. “When You Make Sacrifice, No One Is A Stranger”: Divination, Sacrifice And Identity Among Translocals In The



West African Urban Diaspora / Laura S. Grillo -- 8. The Boundary-Crossing Influence Of African Initiated Churches (Aics) On Youth In Emuhaya District, Western Kenya / Susan M. Kilonzo -- 9. Gospel Without Borders: Gender Dynamics Of Transnational Religious Movements In Kenya And The Kenyan Diaspora / Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- 10. The Bonnke Effect: Encounters With Transnational Evangelism In Southeastern Nigeria / Edlyne E. Anugwom -- 11. The Pan-African Church: Nation, Self, And Spirit In Winners’ Chapel, Nigeria / Samuel Krinsky -- 12. Transnational Tradition: The Global Dynamics Of “African Traditional Religion” / Marleen De Witte -- Contributors / A. Adogame.

Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this volume illustrates the variety and power of predominantly pentecostal-charismatic movements between Western and African religious actors and groups that has developed across the past twenty years. In so doing, it also highlights the dramatic change in global ""migration"" patterns as a result of relatively inexpensive air travel.