In Professionalizing Leadership, leadership scholar Barbara Kellerman lays out a plan to remedy the field's vagueness by advocating testing, certification, and regulation that befit a true profession. This book illuminates the pitfalls and potential of leadership education, and outlines a logical sequence for professionalizing the field.
Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on · The perils of stereotypes · The importance of leadership style · Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles · Lessons from women leaders · “Opt out” patterns and the need for flexible career paths · Global inequalities and initiatives · Strategies that get women to the top Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.
Bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious - and so must be more carefully examined and better understood. Drawing on contemporary examples - from Mary Meeker to David Koresh, Bill Clinton to Radovan Karadzic - this book explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects why and how leaders cross the line from good to bad.