Essential Leadership: Develop Your Leadership Qualities Through Theory and Practice

Esther Cameron; Mike Green

ISBN 10: 0749477407 / ISBN 13: 9780749477400

Published by Kogan Page, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essential Leadership: Develop Your Leadership Qualities Through Theory and Practice
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749477407
• ISBN 13: 9780749477400
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Essential Leadership is a practical, accessible book that tackles theory and practice in an integrated and stimulating way. You are encouraged to engage with a wide range of leadership theories and frameworks as well as rate your own leadership skills and qualities, make realistic self-development plans and start to experiment with new or different approaches. Rather than offering one best way forward or becoming overly theoretical, this book is a pragmatic resource for new and experienced leaders looking to navigate the leadership literature and start to fully realize their own leadership potential.

Supported by exercises, practical examples, rigorous self-assessments, advice and suggestions, Essential Leadership offers an important guide for those currently working, or planning to work, in a 21st century business environment with all its complexity and uncertainty. It provides an over-arching framework of five essential leadership qualities that can be refined and combined as leaders grow, allowing them to be particularly responsive to the business context. The book allows readers to discover and develop their own leadership qualities, and master them through understanding, experimentation, feedback and reflection. Cutting-edge research into Millennial Leadership is also included, as are sections on developing your leadership maturity throughout life, and how leadership culture forms and changes. Online supporting resources include lecture slides and an instructor's manual.

About the Authors

Esther Cameron is the Founder of Cameron Change, a consultancy that helps leaders and their teams shift their working paradigms to healthier, regenerative and dynamic practices to deal with change.

Throughout her career, she has supported clients including Shell, Tata Steel, Canaccord Genuity and several British government departments.

Mike Green is the Managing Director of Transitional Space, a consultancy firm that specializes in change management, leadership development and individual and team coaching. He is a Visiting Executive Fellow at Henley Business School and also delivers accredited programmes in change management to senior managers and change agents in the UK, Africa and the Middle East.