LEADing small business : business growth through leadership development This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real life narrative encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers whilst explaining the key theories models and techniques that underpin the leadership methods and approaches deployed at each stage of the delegates journey. The book follows three owner managers over a ten month period. Each chapter splits into two an aesthetic narrative on the learning journey and a theory sandwich which draws the readers attention to the theories models and debates underpinning the learning at each stage of the delegates journey. Academics as well as students will benefit from the research based examination of leadership learning in the SME context as it will allow them to stand in the shoes of owners or managers. Policy makers and practitioners will also find the narrative both revealing and informative 1. The owner manager leadership and business growth 2. Why is leadership learning problematic for small business 3. Leadership learning 4. Coaching for growth 5. Becoming a LEAD delegate and identity development 6. Observational learning 7. Single double and triple loop learning 8. Human social and institutional capitals 9. Self efficacy of leading : theoretical importance of exchanges 10. Birds nest and marbles 11. Reflection and reflexivity 12. The learning and the changes 13. Ambitious implications