Leading Coherently : Reflections From Leaders Around the World

Leading Coherently : Reflections From Leaders Around the World

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Book Description

Leading Coherently draws insight from 36 exemplary leaders to describe a natural and potent relationship between leadership formation, performance, and sustainability. Through sharing their leadership stories, leaders from across the globe reveal prominent themes about how leaders are formed to the role of influencing others toward the achievement of goals. Leaders also reveal how leaders perform such influence on others, and how leaders sustain themselves and their leadership influence over time and adversity.  

Key Features:  

• References leadership wisdom born of rich experience from a very diverse group of credible and respected leaders
• Describes elements of leadership formation, performance and sustainability that cut across gender, culture, and context
• Observes a dynamic relationship between leadership values, character, behavior, and dispositions
• Presents a model for assessing, and advancing coherent leadership
• Presents practical examples of how real-world leaders advance the coherency of their leadership practice 

This would be an ideal text for students in leadership programs at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level. Aspiring and practicing leaders across all fields who are interested in understanding powerful influences within their formation, improving their performance, and sustaining themselves and their purpose will also find this book extremely helpful.    

About the Author

Nancy Stanford-Blair is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and the Leadership Center at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is co-creator of the Leadership Center.  She also serves as a leadership, learning, and development consultant to education, corporate, and service organizations. She is co-author (with Michael Dickmann and Anthea Rosati-Bojar) of Leading With the Brain in Mind: 101 Brain-Compatible Practices for Leaders; Corwin Press (forthcoming 12/2003), and (with Michael Dickmann) Connecting Leadership to the Brain, Corwin Press (2002).

Michael Dickmann is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and the Leadership Center at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also serves as a leadership, learning, and development consultant to education, corporate, and service organizations. He is co-author (with Nancy Stanford-Blair) of Leading With the Brain in Mind: 101 Brain-Compatible Practices for Leaders; Corwin Press (12/2003 forthcoming), and (with Nancy Stanford-Blair) Connecting Leadership to the Brain, Corwin Press (2002).

Leading Coherently : Reflections From Leaders Around the World,Nancy Stanford-Blair,Michael H. Dickmann,Sage Publications, Inc,1412905893,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Employee motivation,Executive ability,Leadership,Motivational,Organizational Behavior,Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior

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