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The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages

ISBN: 9780028740911 | 0028740912
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. Date: 8/1/1995

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book serves as a guided introduction to the rich a diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others demonstrate that the challenges of leadership are as old as civilization. Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Ghandi, and W.E.B. Du Bois provide a wide range of insights into the eternal practice and problems of leadership. Modern masters of leadership such as... MORE
Prefaceix(4)
Acknowledgmentsxiii
PART I. THE CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP1(24)
1. The Cry for Leadership
3(5)
... MORE
John W. Gardner
2. The Crisis of Leadership
8(3)
James MacGregor Burns
3. Defining a Citizen Leader
11(7)
Richard A. Couto
4. Servant Leadership
18(7)
Robert K. Greenleaf
PART II. WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?25(22)
5. Thinking and Learning about Leadership
27(6)
Thomas E. Cronin
6. Paths of Inquiry into Leadership
33(4)
Irving J. Spitzberg, Jr.
7. The Meaning of Leadership
37(2)
Bernard M. Bass
8. What Is Leadership?
39(8)
Richard L. Hughes
Robert C. Ginnett
Gordon J. Curphy
PART III. HISTORICAL VIEWS OF LEADERSHIP47(34)
9. Concepts of Leadership: The Beginnings
49(4)
Bernard M. Bass
10. The Hero as King
53(2)
Thomas Carlyle
11. Rulers and Generals Are "History's Slaves"
55(5)
Leo Tolstoy
12. The Republic
60(5)
Plato
13. Politics
65(2)
Aristotle
14. How Princes Should Keep Faith
67(2)
Niccolo Machiavelli
15. Tao Te Ching
69(3)
Lao-tzu
16. Satyagraha
72(6)
Mohandas Gandhi
17. The Talented Tenth
78(3)
W.E.B. Du Bois
PART IV. MODERN VIEWS OF LEADERSHIP81(44)
18. Contemporary Leadership Theory
83(17)
Martin M. Chemers
19. Transactional and Transforming Leadership
100(2)
James MacGregor Burns
20. The Transformation of Transforming Leadership
102(6)
Richard A. Couto
21. Beyond the Charismatic Leader: Leadership and Organizational Change
108(6)
David A. Nadler
Michael L. Tushman
22. What Leaders Really Do
114(11)
John P. Kotter
PART V. THE LEADER125(58)
23. Personal Factors Associated with Leadership
127(6)
Ralph M. Stogdill
24. Leadership: Do Traits Matter?
133(11)
Shelley A. Kirkpatrick
Edwin A. Locke
25. Behavioral Theories of Leadership
144(5)
Paul Hersey
Kenneth H. Blanchard
26. Ways Women Lead
149(12)
Judy B. Rosener
27. Would Women Lead Differently
161(7)
Virginia Schein
28. Women and Minorities in Management
168(15)
Ann M. Morrison
Mary Ann Von Glinow
PART VI. THE FOLLOWERS183(22)
29. Leaders and Followers
185(4)
John W. Gardner
30. Leaders and Followers Are the People in this Relationship
189(4)
Joseph C. Rost
31. In Praise of Followers
193(12)
Robert E. Kelley
PART VII. LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS TOGETHER205(38)
32. Situational Leadership
207(5)
Paul Hersey
Kenneth H. Blanchard
33. SuperLeadership: Beyond the Myth of Heroic Leadership
212(10)
Charles C. Manz
Henry P. Sims
34. Domination/Subordination
222(9)
Jean B. Miller
35. Challenging the Barriers to Opportunity
231(12)
Anne M. Morrison
PART VIII. THE LEADERSHIP ENVIRONMENT243(82)
36. The Historical and Contemporary Contexts of Leadership: A Conceptual Model
245(8)
J. Thomas Wren
Marc J. Swatez
37. Cultural Constraints in Management Theories
253(18)
Geert Hofstede
38. Defining Organizational Culture
271(11)
Edgar H. Schein
39. Strong Cultures: A New "Old Rule" for Business Success
282(15)
Terrence E. Deal
Allan A. Kennedy
40. Leadership in Large-Scale Organized Systems
297(6)
John W. Gardner
41. Leadership and Democracy
303(7)
Thomas E. Cronin
42. The Making of a Citizen Leader
310(8)
Cheryl Mabey
43. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle
318(7)
Clayborne Carson
PART IX. LEADING INDIVIDUALS325(28)
44. Understanding and Influencing Follower Motivation
327(12)
Richard L. Hughes
Robert C. Ginnett
Gordon J. Curphy
45. Power, Influence, and Influence Tactics
339(14)
Richard L. Hughes
Robert C. Ginnett
Gordon J. Curphy
PART X. LEADING GROUPS353(22)
46. Developmental Sequence in Small Groups
355(5)
Bruce W. Tuckman
47. Groupthink
360(15)
Irving Janis
PART XI. THE SKILLS OF A LEADER375(76)
48. The Artform of Leadership
377(2)
Warren Bennis
49. What It Means to Think Critically
379(10)
Stephen D. Brookfield
50. Common Views of Organizations
389(6)
Lee G. Bolman
Terrence E. Deal
51. Choosing a Fundamental Change Strategy
395(7)
Richard Beckhard
Wendy Pritchard
52. Visionary Leadership
402(6)
Marshall Sashkin
53. The Decision-Making Process
408(10)
E. Frank Harrison
54. Decision Making and the Leadership Process
418(10)
Victor H. Vroom
55. Leadership Communication Skills
428(4)
Michael Z. Hackman
Craig E. Johnson
56. Designing Systems for Resolving Disputes in Organizations
432(19)
Jeanne M. Brett
Stephen B. Goldberg
William L. Ury
PART XII. LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE451(30)
57. Leadership Jazz
453(3)
Max De Pree
58. Redefining Leadership for the Next Century
456(8)
Lynne Joy McFarland
Larry E. Senn
John R. Childress
59. Talent and Training for Leadership
464(8)
Roger B. Smith
60. A New Vision of Leadership
472(9)
Michele Darling
PART XIII. PRACTICING MORAL LEADERSHIP481(28)
61. Moral Leadership
483(1)
James MacGregor Burns
62. Moral Development in Individuals
484(8)
Howard T. Prince II
63. Messages from the Environment: The Influence of Policies and Practices on Employee Responsibility
492(8)
Joanne B. Ciulla
64. Universal Human Values: Finding an Ethical Common Ground
500(9)
Rushworth M. Kidder
References509(36)
Name Index545(4)
Subject Index549
J. Thomas Wren teaches at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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