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What are the main characteristics of effective leadership? How can we understand leadership today?
This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practiced and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences.
An invaluable reference tool, it contains consistent, concise and authoritative entries on: The Eight Questions of Leadership; The Five Minds of the Manager; Leadership and Psychology; Developmental Approaches to Leadership; Functional Leadership; Leadership Practice
This book is an indispensable guide to the central concepts of leadership for professionals and students alike.
Compromising Leadership and Co-Operative Leadership
Compromising Leadership and Co-Operative Leadership
Leaders willing to give a bit and take a bit to get things done will approach things differently to those who look towards new opportunities and concentrate on actively building the alliances to make them possible.
This might not be the most obvious distinction; compromise and co-operation appear to be quite close in meaning, and are not mutually exclusive: compromise could be one of the ways in which collaborative ventures proceed – both sides giving a bit in order to carry on. But we believe it is an important distinction because compromise occurs when people agree to shift their existing positions, while collaboration is when parties create new positions and possibilities by working together.
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