Contemporary Perspectives: Leadership

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There are lakhs of articles, thousands of books, hundreds of speakers and institutions that advocate leadership exclusively. Yet, leadership remains as virgin a domain as it was during the greatman theory’s emergence. Warren Bennis, Jim Collins, Robert Greenleaf, Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey, John Kotter and the list goes on and on. The practising and the aspiring leaders owe a lot to those thought leaders on leadership who, upon carrying out extensive surveys on various aspects of leadership, have given a definite shape to the domain of leadership. The literature that those thought leaders had generated in the form of papers, articles, interviews, and books are invaluable in nature and are catering to the practising leaders with the required principles, strategies and experiences. Leadership books have been the medium of propagating the ground breaking thoughts like Level five leadership by Jim Collins, Servant leadership by Robert Green leaf etc., which have been duly implemented in several organizations resulting in the tremendous success of the companies, the leaders, the led. Considering the role that the books play in the life of a leader/manager, this book presents a compendium of reviews of the best selling books in the domain of leadership that offers the gist of the best sellers, as well as a choice to the reader to procure the books as per his requirement.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR K.B.S Kumar

K B S Kumar holds a PGDBA (Finance) from the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad; Masters degrees in personnel management and organizational psychology from Osmania and Annamalai University, respectively. At present he is working as a Consulting Editor at ICFAI Books, a division of the ICFAI University Press. He is also an adjunct faculty at ICFAI Business School. He contributed articles, case studies and book reviews on the topics of leadership, change management, and training and development to various publications of the ICFAI University Press such as Insurance Chronicle, Global CEO, HRM Review and Chartered Financial Analyst. He edited a few books also published by the ICFAI University Press. His areas of interest include communication, human psychology, leadership, emotional intelligence, and training and development.

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Title
Contemporary Perspectives: Leadership
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
813141157X
Length
208p.
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