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The myth of leadership creates a rank-based culture where the leaders possess special privilege to speak and the followers possess an unreciprocated obligation to listen; where the leaders are entitled to monopolize information, control decision-making, and command obedience, thus establishing a culture of secrecy and inauthentic communication ...
Leadership (published October 1, 2002) is a book written by Rudolph W. Giuliani [1] with Ken Kurson about Giuliani's time as Mayor of New York City and how he reduced crime, and revitalized the economy of the city.
The Washington Post describes The Leadership Challenge as a "business-meets-self help canon." [1] Carmine Gallo and Tom Gerace have cited The Leadership Challenge as an important book in developing their leadership skills. [5] [16] Verne Harnish described the book as "one of the five most important leadership books ever written." [17]
In reviewing the older leadership theories, Scouller highlighted certain limitations in relation to the development of a leader's skill and effectiveness: [3] Trait theory: As Stogdill (1948) [4] and Buchanan & Huczynski (1997) had previously pointed out, this approach has failed to develop a universally agreed list of leadership qualities and "successful leaders seem to defy classification ...
It is the book for which he is best-known. [3] The book was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list in April 1999 [4] after marketing company ResultSource manipulated the list by making it look like copies of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership had been purchased by thousands of individuals when, in actuality, ResultSource had simply ...
The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability is a leadership book written by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman. [1] [2] It was first published in 1994. The book, which borrows its title from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, discusses accountability and results. [3]
The significance of strategic leadership “is making decisions about whether and when to act” (Beatty and Quinn, 2010, p. 6). Leadership is about innovators and change agents; seeing the big picture, thinking strategically about how to attain goals, and working (with the help of others) to achieve the goals (Kouzes and Posner, 2009, p. 20).
The fifth edition in the Mandate series, Mandate for Leadership 2000, included the edited transcripts of nine nonpartisan public sessions held by Heritage in 2000 called “The Keys to a Successful Presidency”. The forums focused on how past presidents and administrations implemented their policy agendas from their first day in office.