Understanding Leadership: Paradigms and Cases

To provide a framework with which to approach the concept of leadership, Avery (Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia) integrates the many definitions and theories of leadership into four paradigms. She then presents 10 case studies from organizations in Europe, Australia and the US to illustrate the diversity of successful leadership. Each case study concludes with questions to help the reader analyze the cases and to connect them with the leadership frameworks and theories presented in the first section. The case studies are summarized in lists of key issues. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR