Carroll / Flood The Persuasive Leader

Lessons from the Arts
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-470-97335-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

The communication aspect of leadership - to actively engageyour followers and achieve understanding and motivation whilstmaking the message memorable - has never been more important.Using vivid lessons and examples from spheres outside businessorganization, The Persuasive Leader explores the leader'srole as a communicator and teaches the fundamental principles ofsuccessful leadership.
This book provides insights and principles about persuasiveleadership from a broad range of human experiences. It draws onexamples of persuasive leaders and persuasive leadership principlesfrom the performing arts, the fine arts, literature, philosophicalwritings, and biography. The authors use their unconventionalmaterial to explore themes such as moral leadership, toxicleadership, learning from failures, 'distributed' leadership,leading for results and the leader as a mentor and counsellor.
Leaders described in The Persuasive Leader:
Abraham Lincoln, Jack Welch, Cleopatra, Teddy Roosevelt,Alexander the Great, Rachel Carson, Joshua Chamberlain, GovernorJohn Winthrop, Barack Obamma, Steve Jobs, Henry V, Julius Caesar,John Quincy Adams, Dwight Eisenhower, Susan B. Anthony, ElizabethCady Stanton, Huey Long, Napoleon, Ghandi, Sam Walton, ArchbishopSean O'Malley, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Sinegal,Dolly Madison, James Jones, Clarence Darrow, William Harvey, RonaldReagan, Fletcher Christian, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela,Charles McCormick, George Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Joan of Arc,John Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Christopher Columbus, Anita Roddick,John DeLorean, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and others lesswell known persuasive leaders such as Anne Sullivan, TS Lin, MariaGalantry, Dorothy Collins, Scott Nash, Jane Hughes, WilliamBarnes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Stephen

Flood, Patrick C.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen J. Carroll is a retired professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, who now works as a private consultant. During his career he has authored twelve books on psychology and organizational behaviour. He has served as a consultant to more than 30 industrial and government organizations and is a regular speaker at the University of Maryland and Syracuse University executive courses. He is best known for his books on performance assessment and leadership. He first developed the idea for this book in his courses for company executives where he found they responded particularly well to the case examples from the arts and from day to day life.
Patrick C Flood is an Academic Fellow at Cambridge University. He has worked at the London Business School, University of Maryland, University of Limerick, Dublin City University and the London School of Economics. He is known primarily for his work on leadership teams and firm performance. His books include Effective Top Management Teams (2001, Blackwelll; Managing Strategy Implementation (with S.J.Carroll, Blackwell, 2000) (5000 copies sold over life) and Managing without Traditional Methods (Addison Wesley, 1996). He is currently external examiner at SAID business school and consults for the following companies: Pernod Ricard-Irish Distillers; Nypro-Clinton(US); Hewlett Packard (UK), Wang, Paul Partnership and VEC, Novartis, Nortel, ICL (UK), NHS(UK).