Gurus on leadership
- New Delhi Viva Books 2007
- "vi,164p. : ill. ;21cm."
"Contents: A taster of leadership-where have all the leaders gone? : A cautionary tale for today's times, The Enron fallout, Scandals everywhere!, And so to Europe, Positions of excellence diminish very rapidly, A leadership crisis?, But what about public sector values?, A legitimate right to lead versus the 'I/me' agenda, Private, public and political, The problem's everywhere, Tools and techniques versus character - - The Leadership Gurus : John Adair - Action Centered Leadership (ACL), Warren Bennis - The Dean of leadership gurus, Robert Blake and Jane Mouton - The grid people, Ken Blanchard - The one minute manager, David Brent - aka Rickie Gervais - A modern Leadership icon, Peter Drucker - - Management by objectives, Fred Fiedler - The contingency theory man, Daniel Goleman - The emotional intelligence (EQ) man, Paul Hersey - Situational leadership, Manfred Kets de vries - The psychology of leadership, John Kotter - the leader and change, James M Kouzes and Berry Posner - Leadership and followership, Nicolo Machiavelli - The Prince, Abraham Maslow - The motivation man, Douglas McGregor - The theory X and theory Y man (or carrot and stick approach), David McClelland - Achievement, affiliation and power motiation, Tom Peters - The revolutionary leadership guru, W J Reddin - Three dimensional Leadership Grid, Tannenbaum and Schmidt - The leadership continuum, Abraham Zaleznik - Leadership versus management - - The leadership tool box : Some thoughts on leadership and managing, The American Management Association's (AMA), Core competencies of effective executive leaders, Leadership skills and personal characteristics - A useful checklist - - Leadership quotes : What people have to say about leadersh"