University Press of America
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-3741-1 • Paperback • April 2007 • $54.99 • (£42.00)
Richard A. Couto is a founding faculty member of Antioch University's Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. Prior to this position he was a founding faculty member, professor, and Modlin Chair at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. His many publications, distinguished by several awards, cover community leadership and social change efforts.
Part 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 I: James MacGregor Burns and Leadership
Chapter 4 James MacGregor Burns: Leo as Leader
Chapter 5 An Intellectual History of Leadership Studies
Chapter 6 The Scholarly/Practical Challenge in Leadership
Part 7 II: Understanding Leadership
Chapter 8 Relating Leadership to Active Followership
Chapter 9 Jumping Frogs, and the Multi-Level Analysis of Leadership
Chapter 10 Leadership and Common Purpose
Chapter 11 Leadership and the Vox Populi
Chapter 12 Leadership: Gender Excluded Yet Embraced
Chapter 13 A New Paradigm for a New Leadership
Part 14 III: Finding Leadership after Leadership
Chapter 15 Can Organizations Meet the Test of Transforming Leadership?
Chapter 16 The Leadership of Ordinary People
Chapter 17 Leadership and a Place Called Hope
Chapter 18 Leadership from the Bottom Up
Chapter 19 Effective Narratives of Adaptive Work
Chapter 20 Conclusion as Prologue
Part 21 Contributors
Richard Couto has assembled a diverse group of noted leadership scholars, all influenced in some way by James MacGregor Burns's Leadership, and by Burns himself. Reflections on Leadership is an outstanding addition to the leadership literature and a wonderful and thoughtful tribute to Jim Burns.
— Ronald E. Reggio, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology; Director, Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna
If the hallmark of a great work of art or scholarship is the compulsion it sparks to keep pondering its revelations, its mysteries, and its creator, then James MacGregor Burns's path breaking volume, Leadership fits the bill. In Reflections on Leadership, Richard Couto assembles a distinguished group of contributors to examine critically Burns's foundational oeuvre, as well as his unique persona and field-shaping initiatives, through multiple prisims—theoretical, practical, historical, and personal. We even hear Burns, himself, thoughtfully, humorously, and modestly musing about his intellectual U-turns and where he currently is heading. Don't miss this gem!
— Jean Lipman-Blumen, Thorton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy; Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management, Claremont University; auth
For the student of leadership, [this book] offers a challenging 'insider's view' of how leadership scholars view leadership....
— Peter G. Northouse, Professor of Communication at Western Michigan University and author of Leadership: Theory and Practice
The book's deft editing guides readers through the separate chapters; integrates the contributors' perspectives into a theoretical construct; and concludes with a synthesis of new perspectives around three shortcomings of Leadership. As a whole, the volume looks back at a classic in the emerging field of leadership studies, addresses central challenges left to us, and offers direction for the field's continued evolution.
— Al Goethals, professor, Robins Distinguished Chair at Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond; general co-editor Encyclopedia