Leadership: All You Need To Know 2nd edition

Leadership: All You Need To Know 2nd edition

von: David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

ISBN: 9781137554369

Sprache: Englisch

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Leadership: All You Need To Know 2nd edition



  Foreword by Sir Rod Eddington:Great Leadership Matters 6  
  Preface to the Second Edition 8  
  Acknowledgements 10  
  Contents 12  
  List of Figures 16  
  List of Tables 18  
  Introduction 20  
  1: The History of Thinking about Leadership 25  
      Introduction 25  
      Disciplinary Perspectives on Leadership 26  
         The View through the Rear-View Mirror: The History of Leadership Theory 31  
            Pre-twentieth Century 31  
            Leadership in the Twentieth Century 32  
           Early Twentieth Century: Scientific Management and Trait Theory 34  
           Later Twentieth Century: Situations and Contexts, Needs and Interaction, Management and Leadership 36  
           The Turn of the Twenty-First Century 43  
           Democratisation 47  
         The View through the Windshield: The Future 49  
           Followers and Followership 49  
           Plural Forms of Leadership 52  
      Individuals: Leadership beyond Organisations 55  
      Summary and Conclusion 57  
  2: Leadership’s Impact on the Performance of Organisations 58  
      Examples of the Case Against 60  
      How Do Leaders Create this Climate? 70  
      What Impact Do Different Leadership Styles Have on Climate? 71  
      The Impact of Leadership on Employee Engagement 75  
      Summary and Conclusion 79  
  3: The Primary Colours of Leadership 80  
      The Primary Colours Model of Leadership 82  
         The Strategic Domain 83  
         The Operational Domain 90  
         The Interpersonal Domain 91  
         Leading 92  
         Case Study 1: An Emperor of Ancient Rome: S+, O+, I? 94  
         Case Study 2: A CEO of a Mobile Phone Company: S–, O+, I+ 94  
         Case Study 3: A Technology Start-Up: S+, O–, I+ 95  
         Case Study 4: A Team in Trouble: Too Many S–, O+, I– 96  
         Case Study 5: A Multinational: S+, O+, I+ Together 96  
      The Heptathlete and the Duck 97  
      Summary and Conclusion 98  
  4: Five Enablers of Leading 99  
      Inspire 99  
      Focus 102  
      Enable 103  
      Reinforce 105  
      Learn 108  
      Five Leadership Enablers Taken to Extremes 109  
         ‘Inspire’ Overplayed 110  
         ‘Focus’ Overplayed 111  
         ‘Enable’ Overplayed 112  
         ‘Reinforce’ Overplayed 112  
         ‘Learn’ Overplayed 113  
      Summary and Conclusion 113  
  5: The Improbability of Being a  Complete Leader 115  
      Part One: Three Arguments 115  
         Logically 115  
            Inspire 116  
            Focus 118  
         Empirically 119  
         Psychologically 121  
         The Big 5 and the NEO 123  
         Summary of Part One 125  
      Part Two: Jobs and Journeys 126  
         The Technical Job 126  
         The Supervisory Job 127  
         The Strategic Job 128  
      Careers and Vocational Choice 129  
         A Two-Dimensional Model 130  
         A Hexagon Model 132  
         Playing to Strengths 138  
         Values 139  
      Summary and Conclusion 141  
  6: Building a Leadership Team 142  
      Understanding Influences 142  
         Behavioural Repertoire 143  
         Situational Demands 144  
         The Leader’s Repertoire 144  
      Looking for Complementary Differences 146  
      Team Complementarity 149  
         Examples of these Principles in Action 150  
         Teamwork 155  
      Building and Balancing the Leadership Team 156  
         An Alternative Leadership Audit 158  
         Leaders’ Insights into Their Own Strengths 159  
         Creating and Maintaining Complementarity 162  
         Creating a Positive Micro-Climate 164  
      A Systematic Approach 165  
         Inputs, Processes, Outputs and Outcomes 165  
      Summary and Conclusion 168  
  7: Do You Have to Be Smart to Be a Leader? 169  
      Multiple Intelligences 171  
      Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) 175  
         Emotional Intelligence at Work 176  
      Business or Managerial Intelligence 183  
      Yet More Quotients of ‘Intelligence’ 186  
      Summary and Conclusion 188  
  8: The Impact of Personality on Leadership 189  
      What is Personality? 190  
      The ‘Big Five’ Traits at Work 192  
      Personality and Leadership 196  
         Behavioural Genetics 196  
         Higher Order Factors 196  
         Five-Factor Model (FFM) 198  
      A Word about Introverted Leaders 202  
      Personality and Behaviour 203  
      Drawing the Evidence on Personality Together 205  
      Summary and Conclusion 207  
  9: When It All Goes Wrong: Leaders Who Fail and Derail 208  
      Incompetence versus Derailment 210  
      Dark-Side Traits 211  
      Spotting those at Risk: Three Crucial Indicators 219  
      Prevention 221  
         Selection 221  
         Training 222  
      Resilience 224  
      Summary and Conclusion 225  
  10: A Programme of Action 227  
      Alan Franklin’s Story 228  
         Considering a Job Change 229  
         Working with the Team 232  
         Becoming the CEO 235  
         Dealing with a Downturn 237  
         The Next Stage of the Journey 241  
      Summary and Conclusion: Complete Leadership 243  
  Bibliography 244  
  Index 256  

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