Exploring Leadership
For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-7879-8213-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors' work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-8213-3 (9780787982133)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Susan R. Komives | Nance Lucas | Timothy R. McMahon
Exploring Leadership
For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference
Book
05/2013
3rd Edition
Jossey-Bass
€61.90
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Persons
Susan R. Komives is associate professor and director of the College Student Personnel Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Nance Lucas is the associate dean and associate professor at New Century College at George Mason University and former special assistant to the provost and director of the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. Timothy R. McMahon is a faculty consultant in the Teaching Effectiveness Program at the University of Oregon.
Content
Preface. The Authors. Part I: Leadership for a Changing World. 1. An Introduction to Leadership. 2. The Changing Nature of Leadership. 3. The Relational Leadership Model. Part II: Exploring Your Potential for Leadership. 4. Understanding Yourself. 5. Understanding Others. 6. Leading with Integrity and Moral Purpose. Part III: Context for the Practice of Leadership. 7. Interacting in Teams and Groups. 8. Understanding Complex Organizations. 9. Being in Communities. 10. Renewing Groups, Organizations, and Communities. Part IV: Making a Difference with Leadership. 11. Understanding Change. 12. Strategies for Change. Part V: Leadership Development and Renewal. 13. Developing a Leadership Identity. 14. The Mind, Body, and Soul of the Leader. References. Subject Index. Name Index.