Leadership, Keith Grint
Leadership, Keith Grint
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Leadership
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Keith Grint

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Napoleon. Bill Gates. George W. Bush. Osama bin Laden. Leaders and leadership are perennial topics of debate. What is leadership? How does one become a leader? Do we actually need leaders? In this Very Short Introduction, Keith Grint offers provocative answers to these questions, prompting listeners to rethink their assumptions about what leadership is. Indeed, Grint argues that leadership is a very elusive quality, and that there are few definitive answers to be found, which explains why most books on leadership produce so much heat and so little light. But there are important questions to ask, questions which shed light on why leadership so resists definition. Grint looks at the way leadership has evolved from its earliest manifestations in ancient societies, highlights the early ideas about leadership found in Plato, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and others, considers how social, economic, and political forces can undermine particular modes of leadership, and discusses the practice of management, its history, future, and influence on all aspects of society.

About Keith Grint

Keith Grint is professor of public leadership at Warwick University. Previously he was professor of defense leadership at Cranfield University. He spent ten years in industry before switching to an academic career. He remains a visiting research professor at Lancaster University, a fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, an associate fellow of the Said Business School and Green Templeton College, Oxford University, and a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, a research arm of the UK's National School of Government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Artur on September 29, 2013

You should read this book if you are interested in a brief summary of scholar research on leadership. I think, this books is too brief, I mean, it is difficult to follow the reasoning without previous knowledge of -for instance- the history of management (that is the main reason why I've rated only......more

Goodreads review by Erich on July 04, 2011

This book is, and says from the beginning that it is, descriptive rather than prescriptive. It is an academic survey of leadership scholarship that is thought provoking and professional. It may not change the world, but it will make you think about what does.......more

Goodreads review by Allan on November 19, 2021

Leadership: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Grint The book is a pretty quick read and is targeted to anyone who wants to learn about leadership in a short little book, it is part of the series "A Short Introduction" which gives you an introduction about a lot of different topics from Algebra to J......more

Goodreads review by Clyde on October 19, 2023

My five-star review should not convey the interpretation that I don't harbor any objections to particular assertions pronounced by the author. However, given the "introductory" objectives of the work and its task of representatively surveying the full range of (mainstream?) schools of thought concern......more

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