The Many Facets of Leadership (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) - Softcover

Goldsmith, Marshall; Govindarajan, Vijay; Kaye, Beverly; Vicere, Albert A.

9780131005334: The Many Facets of Leadership (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131005332 ISBN 13: 9780131005334

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2002

In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexity and crisis, overcoming blind spots, managing knowledge workers, coaching tomorrow's leaders, increasing value, retaining customers, and much more.

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About the Author:

MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve a positive, measurable change in behavior for themselves, their people, and their teams. His work has been positively recognized by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New Yorker. With Frances Hesselbein and Dick Beckhard, he edited The Leader of the Future (a BusinessWeek bestseller), The Organization of the Future, and The Community of the Future. Five of his recent books have been ranked #1 in their field by amazon.com.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He has extensively published in top-tier academic journals in the areas of strategy and organization. He has received numerous scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management. He consults with CEOs and senior executives in a variety of global corporations. He has been rated by BusinessWeek as a Top Ten Professor in Corporate Executive Education. He has been a keynote speaker in major conferences including the BusinessWeek CEO Forum and the Economist Conferences.

BEVERLY KAYE, co-author of the international bestseller Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay and author of the classic Up Is Not The Only Way, is one of the nation's leading authorities on career development, mentoring, retention, and engagement. She is founder and president of Career Systems International, Scranton, PA. As a sought-after speaker and consultant on talent management issues, Dr. Kaye counts some of the nation's leading corporations as her clients. She is an active member of the American Society for Training & Development and she has received their National Career Development Award and Best Practice Award for her work.

ALBERT A. VICERE is Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership at Penn State's Smeal College of Business and President of Vicere Associates Inc., a consulting firm whose clients span the globe. He is a recipient of the Smeal College's MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, the Institute for Management Studies' Distinguished Faculty Award, and two Literati Clubs Awards for Excellence in writing and research. He is the author of several books and more than 70 articles focused on leadership development and organizational effectiveness.

Synopsis:

Leadership. Perhaps the most important management topic of the early 21st century. Where can we find the leaders to lead in these uncertain times? What are the characteristics of these leaders? How are organizations changing and, so, changing the role of leaders? What are the skills that today's leaders need to hone? All this, and more, are the topics of this compilation. Many of the best and most well-known gurus on leadership will be found in this volume: Marshall Goldsmith, Albert Vicere, Peter Koestenbaum, Amarjit Chopra, Beverly Kaye, Vijay Govindarajan, Charles Handy and Judith Bardwick. Each article was commissioned specifically for this collection.

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