LEADERSHIP: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence

by Barbara Kellerman

"Bravo to Barbara Kellerman! Building upon a lifetime of scholarship and upon a popular course she has created at Harvard, Kellerman brings between the covers of a single volume the world's classic literature on leadership. Every thoughtful leader will find deep, rich rewards here." -- David Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership Harvard Kennedy School, Former Presidential Adviser Bolster your leadership literacy―and improve your performance as a leader or manager. Leadership , says author, leadership expert, and Harvard Professor Barbara Kellerman, "is all about what leaders should learn―but it is decidedly not, deliberately not, about what leadership education has lately come to look like." Instead, Leadership is a concise yet expansive collection of great leadership literature that has stood the test of time. As Kellerman makes clear in her extensive, authoritative commentaries, every single selection has had, and continues to have, an impact on how and what we think about what it means to lead. And every single one has had an impact on leadership as an area of intellectual inquiry―as well as on the course of human history. Part I of Leadership consists of writings about leadership:

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction

352 pages, Hardcover

First published December 18, 2009

Reviews

[Kara · Rating 5 out of 5]

The seminal writings on leadership in small, easily digestible portions with excellent commentary to place the works in their cultural context. An excellent, easy read.

[Robyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite section of the book was the middle section, all about leadership as literature - the power of changing the world, simply by writing. Inspiring book.