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Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
Foreword by James MacGregor Burns
Book Code: C3670
ISBN: 0-275-93670-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-93670-9
240 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/1991
List Price: $57.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Though Joseph Rost is a name that may not be familiar to many doing leadership research or training, this book deserves the attention of leadership scholars. He has confronted the field of leadership studies with an unflinching and constructively critical assessment. His intent is to transform the ways in which we understand and practice leadership as we prepare for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
    —The Leadership Quarterly
  • 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
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 Joseph C. Rost's book is that leadership was conceived of as "good management." Rost 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. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century states that the school of leadership characterized by good management has been in evidence all along, yet not well articulated by its proponents. The critique of leadership literature includes definitions of leadership written in each decade since 1930, which are grouped in patterns of thought and analyzed. A chapter is devoted to the concept of leadership in the 1980s, when an explosion of literature appeared. Those studying public administration, applied business issues, and communications will be interested in this fascinating work.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • The Problem with Leadership Studies
  • An Overview of Leadership Studies
  • Definitions of Leadership: 1900-1979
  • Leadership Definitions: The 1980s
  • The Nature of Leadership
  • Leadership and Management
  • Leadership and Ethics in the 1990s
  • Leadership in the Future
  • Index
LC Card Number: 90-40961
LCC Class: HM141
Dewey Class: 303.3
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