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Main Title The powers to lead /
Author Nye, Joseph S.
Publisher Oxford University Press,
Year Published 2008
OCLC Number 173640817
ISBN 9780195335620; 0195335627; 9780199754137; 0199754136
Subjects Political leadership ; Executive ability ; Interpersonal communication ; Puissance douce ; Fèuhrungspsychologie ; Fèuhrungseigenschaft ; Politische Fèuhrung ; Interpersonale Kommunikation ; Politieke leiding ; Fèuhrungskraft ; Fähigkeit ; Politiskt ledarskap
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ELBM  JC330.3.N94 2008 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 11/20/2018
Collation xiii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.
Contents Notes
Leadership -- Leadership and power -- Types and skills -- Contextual intelligence -- Good and bad leaders -- Appendix: Leadership: a dozen quick take-aways. What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational hierarchies have given way to fluid networks of contacts, and when mistrust of leaders is on the rise, our ideas about leadership are clearly due for redefinition. With The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today's world, in an illuminating blend of history, business case studies, psychological research, and more. As he observes, many now believe that the more authoritarian and coercive forms of leadership--the hard power approaches of earlier military-industrial eras--have been largely supplanted in postindustrial societies by soft power approaches that seek to attract, inspire, and persuade rather than dictate. Nye argues, however, that the most effective leaders are actually those who combine hard and soft power skills in proportions that vary with different situations. He calls this smart power. Drawing examples from the careers of leaders as disparate as Gandhi, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Lee Iacocca, and George W. Bush, Nye uses the concept of smart power to shed light on such topics as leadership types and skills, the needs and demands of followers, and the nature of good and bad leadership in terms of both ethics and effectiveness. In one particularly instructive chapter, he looks in depth at contextual intelligence--the ability to understand changing environments, capitalize on trends, and use the flow of events to implement strategies. Thoroughly grounded in the real world, rich in both analysis and anecdote, The Powers to Lead is sure to become a modern classic, a concise and lucid work applicable to every field, from small businesses to nations on the world stage.