Leadership matters
Subtitle: unleashing the power of paradox
By: Thomas E. Cronin, Michael A. Genovese
Contributors: Genovese, Michael A.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781612051420; 9781612051437
Subjects: Leadership; Political leadership
Description: " ... Offers a different view of leadership--one that builds community, motivates self as well as others, and one that is creatively adaptive and synthesizing"--Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The paradoxes of leadership; title: Defining leadership; title: Leadership realities; title: What the classics teach us about leadership: from Gilgamesh to the Bible; title: What the classics teach us about leadership: Machiavelli to Shakespeare; title: What the classics teach us about leadership: the rise of constitutional democracy; title: What business teaches us about leadership; title: What politics teaches us about leadership; title: What the military teaches us about leadership; title: What Hollywood teaches us about leadership; title: The darker side of leadership; title: The creative side of leadership; title: Leadership as a performing art.