Using case studies from a wide range of fields and historical settings, On Effective Leadership seeks to explain why some leaders are effective, why many are not, and why only a very few are exceptional.

'As a student of leadership for many years, I have tried to keep up with the extensive scholarship on this subject. On Effective Leadership is the most substantive and sophisticated work that has come to my attention for years. Chandler and Chandler lay out their research systematically, define and confront problems carefully, and present their own brilliant concepts on leadership as vision, persuasion, organization and remarkably selflessness. They then apply these phenomena to a variety of real-life leaders and situations. They make good use of existing literature on leadership and make useful judgments on recent and current studies.

On Effective Leadership will serve at the cutting edge of leadership research and analysis for years to come.' - James MacGregor Burns Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom

Autorentext
Author G. Donald Chandler III: G. Donald Chandler, III, is a visiting professor in the Leadership Studies Program at Williams College, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 2004. He is also a director emeritus of McKinsey & Company, Inc., an international management consulting firm, where he spent twenty-five years counseling clients in the worlds of business, health care, higher education, and the arts. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1978. Author John W. Chandler: John W. Chandler, a retired leader in higher education, served as president of Williams College, Hamilton College, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Among the many institutions and organizations on whose boards he served was Duke University, where he was board chair. He received a Ph.D. from Duke in philosophical theology and was later Cluett Professor of Religion and Dean of the Faculty at Williams. He continues to be active in research relating to leadership.

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Foreword Introduction PART I: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP: A NEW FRAMEWORK The Leadership Conundrum The Temple and the Genome PART II: ORGANIZING CHANGE Margaret Sanger and Susan B. Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Social Reformers Robert S. McNamara and John W. Gardner: Johnson's Cabinet Warriors Henry Ford and Soichiro Honda: Business Entrepreneurs PART III: POWERS OF PERSUASION G. Stanley Hall and William Rainey Harper: University Presidents Edward Teller and Sir William Osler: Scientific Leaders Napoleon and Augustus: Empire Builders PART IV: TRANSFORMING VISIONS John Humphrey Noyes and George Fox: Religious Visionaries Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela: Revolutionary Leaders Epilogue Implications for Leaders and Followers