This significant revision and expansion of Jossey-Bass’s first, highly successful business leadership reader is a mainstay in leadership education and training — and for good reasons. Business Leadership (2nd edition) explores the fundamentals of leading well: how to distinguish leadership from good management, how to deconstruct a complex process like leadership in order to understand the skills needed to do it well, where to begin, how to prepare oneself to thrive amid chaos and challenge, and how to stay on track for maximum success. The need for leadership is great than ever. This volume is designed to help leaders develop and deepen their skills, capacities, resilience, and resources.
The book provides practical advice that is valuable for new and seasoned leaders alike. It explores essential leadership skills and possibilities, tactics for successfully navigating the leadership terrain (and avoiding predictable pitfalls), and ways to support and sustain leaders during the work. (Find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.)
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The volume begins with a Foreword by Ronald Heifetz and contains classic and original chapters from important leadership thinkers, like Ron Ashkenas, Karen Ayas, David Batstone, Warren G. Bennis, Lee G. Bolman, Larry Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Marcus Buckingham, Charles Burck, Kim Cameron, Keith A. Caver, Ram Charan, Donald O. Clifton, Jim Collins, Bill George, Ronald A. Heifetz, Joan V. Gallos, John P. Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, Terrence E. Deal, Andre Delbecq, David L. Dotlich, Peter F. Drucker, Ken Dychtwald, Marc S. Effron, Tamara Erickson,
Paul Glen, Loizos Heracleous, Jonathan Hughes, Claus D. Jacobs, Todd Jick, Barbara Kellerman, Marty Linsky, Ancella B. Livers, James MacGregor Burns, Philip Mirvis, Robert Morison, Burt Nanus, James L. Noel, James O’Toole, Robert E. Quinn, Andrew J. Razeghi, Douglas A. Ready, Sandra Robinson, Michael J. Sales, Steven B. Sample, Andrew W. Savitz, Edgar H. Schein, Robert J. Thomas, David Ulrich, Michael Watkins, Norman Walker, Karl Weber, Jeff Weiss.
FROM THE EDITOR
I’ve spent a career thinking about the issue of professional effectiveness and about how people lead for success and significance. This book reflects that work. It is intentionally inclusive in content – exploring the linkages among individual, organizational, and situational factors that contribute to leadership success. It celebrates the expanded understanding of leadership and leadership development that has evolved in response to the changing nature of organizations today, the global business environment, increasing diversity, and theoretical advances in the administrative and social sciences. Leadership is a central force in the creation of healthy and effective organizations in an increasingly competitive and complex world. Taken together, the chapters in this volume remind readers that leadership is more than tools and techniques. It is a values-based process that engages people in useful and significant ways to search for lasting solutions to today’s – and tomorrow’s – challenges.
FROM THE BACK COVER
Business Leadership contains the best thinking from the biggest names in leadership on a wide range of subjects including ethics, dealing with change, vision setting, the heroic journey, the practices of leadership, and the work of leadership. For any executive, manager, or consultant, this indispensable resource offers an overview of the leadership fundamentals crucial for becoming an outstanding business leader.
PRAISE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP
“This volume reflects decades of work by multiple individuals to identify common principles of success and the leadership that helps to generate it.” – Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers and coauthor, Leadership on the Line