Thinking about Leadership

Name: Thinking about Leadership
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ISBN: 9780691156187

ISBN-10: 0691156182

ISBN-13: 9780691156187

Edition: 2010

Authors: Nannerl O. Keohane

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Leadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the energies of a nation. Political philosophers have focused largely on how to prevent leaders from abusing their power, yet little attention has been paid to what it actually feels like to hold power, how leaders go about their work, and how they relate to the people they lead. InThinking about Leadership, Nannerl Keohane draws on her experience as the first woman president of Duke University and former president of Wellesley College, as well as her expertise as a leading political theorist, to deepen our…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.17" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Nannerl O. Keohane is the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University. She is the author of "Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University" and "Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (Princeton).



Preface


Introduction



What Is Leadership?



How and Why Do Followers Matter?



What Determines Who Becomes a Leader and Which Leaders Will Succeed?



Does Gender Make a Difference?



How Does Leadership Work in a Democracy?



How Do Character, Ethics, and Leadership Interact?


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index