Contemporary Issues in Leadership: Fifth Edition

by William E. Rosenbach and Robert L. Taylor

Book Overview

This book describes concepts of leadership that range from self-leadership and transactional and transformational leadership to transcendental leadership and the intersection of self, group, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813364566
• ISBN13: 9780813364568
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Anthology's authors knowledgeably dissect leadership traits

This collection of essays from 21 contributors is inspiring reading for those who want to build their leadership talents or improve their companies. It is designed for good leaders, or for people who aspire to that rank and are open to being taught. Interestingly, the book also addresses how people can become better followers. Unlike many other books within this topic range, this anthology makes a distinction between leadership, which it sees as direction setting, and management, which it sees as somewhat more procedural. The essays are interesting, wide-ranging and practical. We find that the 21 voices here have a unified mission: to explain why some people are better than others at getting attention, accomplishing specific tasks and providing their followers with a sense of meaning.

A Good Intermediate Text

This book is best for those who have already read a couple of books on leadership, particularly those by Warren Bennis and James MacGregor Burns since these two figure's ideas are present in many of this book's pages. That is not to say there are no new paths taken. Sashkin and Rosenbach's "A New Vision of Leadership" is eye-opening in its redefinition of transformational leadership. This essay also does well in illustrating the differences between leadership and management, a division I was not sure existed until I picked up this book. Payne, Fuqua, and Canegami's "Women as Leaders" was equally fresh and eye-opening. This is a good book to read to start developing more complex ways of looking at leadership.