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Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
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By Joseph C. Rost
Foreword by James MacGregor Burns
ISBN: 0-275-94610-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94610-4
256 pages
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 2/28/1993
List Price: $27.95 (UK Sterling Price: £16.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • What a pleasure to report on a new book in leadership studies--a term, not incidentally, with which the author has some considerable problems--that is simultaneously intelligent and provocative. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century is testimony both to Rost's breadth of knowledge and to his iconoclasm.
    —Governance
  • Rost examines twentieth century leadership studies decade by decade. His critiques are probing and insightful, while providing an exhaustive review of the literature. . . . Rost's work is likely to be a major turning point in how we think about leadership for the twenty-first century. Community development practitioners and scholars cannot ignore the questions and insights raised by Rost.
    —Journal of the Community Development Society
  • This book is an extremely thoughtful and meticulous effort to identify the bases for the often cited lack of progress in leadership research, and to offer a way out of this dilemma. Rost's critical, reflexive analysis of leadership studies provides a much needed prod to step back from the frenzied production of research and how-to books and examine how our thinking is limited by broader cultural trends and assumptions.
    —The Southern Communication Journal
Description: This illuminating study critiques the concept of leadership as understood in the last 75 years and looks to the twenty-first century for a reconstructed understanding of leadership in the postindustrial era. More similarities in past decades were found than had been thought; the thread throughout Rost's book is that leadership was conceived of as "good management." He develops a new definition and paradigm for leadership in this volume that distinguishes leadership from management in fundamental ways. The ethics of leadership from a postindustrial perspective completes the paradigm. The book concludes with suggestions that can be immediately utilized in helping to transform our understanding of leadership.
LC Card Number: 90-40961
LCC Class: HM141
Dewey Class: 303.3
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