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THE BUSINESS Practicing Leadership G Human Resource Management and U EXPERT PRESS T Organizational Behavior Collection T DIGITAL LIBRARIES Alan S. Gutterman ER M A EBOOKS FOR Leadership is a universal phenomenon that has p reoccupied N BUSINESS STUDENTS scholars, politicians, and others for centuries. It has been Curriculum-oriented, born- consistently identifi ed as playing a critical role in the digital books for advanced success or failure of organizations. Apart from organizational business students, written performance, researchers have consistently found a strong by academic thought correlation between leadership styles and behaviors, and job leaders who translate real- satisfaction and performance of subordinates. world business experience into course readings and This book is intended to serve as a guide to basic principles reference materials for of leadership. 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In addition, A Alan’s prolifi c output of practical guidance and tools for legal C • Perpetual access for a T one-time fee and fi nancial professionals, managers, entrepreneurs and IC I • No platform or investors has made him one of the best-selling individual NG maintenance fees authors in the global legal publishing marketplace. Alan has L E • Free MARC records authored or edited over 70 books on sustainable entrepreneur- A D • No license to execute ship, management, business law and transactions, interna- E R The Digital Libraries are a tional law business, and technology management for a number S H comprehensive, cost-eff ective of publishers. He also has over three decades of experience as IP way to deliver practical a partner and senior counsel with internationally recognized Alan S. Gutterman treatments of important law fi rms counseling small and large business enterprises in business issues to every the areas of general corporate and securities matters, venture student and faculty member. capital, mergers and acquisitions, international law and transactions, and more. He received his AB, MBA, and JD from the University of California at Berkeley, a DBA from Golden Gate University, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. For further information, a For more information about Alan and his activities, please visit free trial, or to order, contact: his website at alangutterman.com. [email protected] www.businessexpertpress.com/librarians Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Collection ISBN: 978-1-94999-121-5 Practicing Leadership Practicing Leadership Alan S. Gutterman Practicing Leadership Copyright © Business Expert Press, LLC, 2019. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other except for brief quotations, not to exceed 400 words, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in 2019 by Business Expert Press, LLC 222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017 www.businessexpertpress.com ISBN-13: 978-1-94999-121-5 (paperback) ISBN-13: 978-1-94999-122-2 (e-book) Business Expert Press Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Collection Collection ISSN: 1946-5637 (print) Collection ISSN: 1946-5645 (electronic) Cover and interior design by Exeter Premedia Services Private Ltd., Chennai, India First edition: 2019 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. Abstract Leadership is a universal phenomenon that has preoccupied scholars, politicians, and others for centuries. It has been consistently identified as playing a critical role in the success or failure of organizations. Apart from organizational performance, researchers have consistently found a strong correlation between leadership styles and behaviors, and job satisfaction and performance of subordinates. This book is intended to serve as a guide to basic principles of leader- ship. It begins with an overview of definitions and conceptions of lead- ership and continues with discussions of the roles and activities expected from an effective leader. Examples included are: personality traits and attributes which can be learned and perfected by persons that aspire to leadership positions and styles of leadership, which encompass the strategies used by leaders to engage with their followers and leadership in developing. Keywords Leadership; definitions of leadership; leadership roles; leadership activi- ties; leadership personalities; leadership styles; leadership in developing countries Contents Preface ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ix Chapter 1 Definitions and Conceptions of Leadership ......................1 Chapter 2 Leadership Roles and Activities .......................................31 Chapter 3 Leadership Traits and Attributes ......................................65 Chapter 4 Leadership Styles ............................................................89 Chapter 5 Leadership in Developing Countries .............................137 About the Author ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������165 Index �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������167 Preface When formal interest in the study of leadership first began in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the so-called “great man” theory, which assumed that certain individual characteristics or traits could be found in leaders but not in nonleaders and that those characteristics could not be devel- oped but must be inherited, was quite popular and many assumed that leaders were simply “born and not made.” As time passed, however, the consensus within the community of leadership scholars and consultants shifted significantly to the current working proposition that although some people do indeed appear to be natural leaders from birth it is none- theless possible for many others who have sufficient desire and willpower to develop into leaders by following a continuous process of work, self- study, education, training, and experience.1 Stogdill observed “there are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the con- cept”2 and there is no apparent limit to the creativity of researchers, management consultants, and actual practitioners in devising definitions 1 Jago, A. 1982. “Leadership: Perspectives in Theory and Research.”Management Science 28, no. 3, p. 315.Leadership remains one of the most popular topics among management books with recent entrants including Gordon, J. 2017. Power of Positive Leadership. New York, NY: Wiley; Craig, N. 2018. Leading from Purpose: Clarity and Confidence to Act When It Matters� London: N icholas Brealey Publishing; Ashkenas, R., and B. Manville. 2018. Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook. Cambridge MA: Harvard Business Press; Blanchard, K., and R. Broadwell. 2018. Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Booher, D. 2017. Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done Paperback. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; and George, B., et al. 2017. Authentic Leadership (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series).Cambridge MA: Harvard Business Press. 2 Stogdill, R. 1974. Handbook of Leadership: A Survey of Theory and Research. New York, NY: The Free Press, p. 7.
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