Building Tomorrow's Leaders Today

"This book will focus on leadership: what it is, how it works, and how you might take steps towards becoming a polymath leader. Leadership is a complex, paradoxical phenomenon that is nuanced, multi- layerd and mutli- dimensional . Good leadership does not come from a majic pill, but from hard work, discipline and focused practice"--

"Genovese (Loyola Marymount Univ.) has written a relevant, succinct, and well-documented monograph on the subject of leadership: what it is, how it works, and how complex and multidimensional it is. Undergraduate students of business and management would benefit from this book, especially if it served as an adjunct resource to a traditional leadership textbook. Summing Up: Recommended." M.J. Safferstone, University of Mary Washington, in CHOICE, July 2014 "Michael Genovese is among the more thoughtful and accomplished of our social scientists. No surprise, then, that this latest in his long line of books, Building Tomorrow's Leaders Today, is as grounded in the classics as in the contemporaneous context. The book has the advantage of being short and to the pointwhile providing a careful and considered framework for what leadership development in the second decade of the 21st century might look like." Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, USA "Michael Genovese is a terrific scholar, teacher, and storyteller on the realities of what it takes to be an effective leader. This is a superbly written, fascinating page-turner of a leadership primerprovocative and compelling!" Thomas E. Cronin, Colorado College, USA "Only a polymath like Genovese could write a leadership book that is grounded in serious scholarship but written with a warmth and wit that welcomes all readers." Joanne B Ciulla, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

Auteur

Michael A. Genovese received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He currently holds the Loyola Chair of leadership studies, is a professor of political science, and director of the Institute of Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University in California. In 2006, he was made a fellow of Queens College, Oxford University. Professor Genovese has written over thirty books on leadership.

Texte du rabat

This book focuseson leadership: what it is, how it works, and how complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional it is. As a political scientist and presidential scholar, Michael Genovese incorporates a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and research on leadership in this book. Students, practitioners and leadership scholars will welcome this new book and its look to the future.

Contenu

Preface. Introduction. 1. Leadership: Too Important to Be Left to Chance 2. A Leadership Composite From the Classics 3. The Leadership Toolkit 4. Leadership and the Cross-currents of Change 5. The Genovese Leadership Academy 6. Conclusion: Leadership, for What? Selected Bibliography