In this fully updated Eight Edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice, a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers. The new edition also includes a new Ethical Leadership Style Questionnaire and new coverage on the dark side of leadership and destructive leadership. Adopted at more than 1600 institutions in 89 countries and translated into 13 different languages, this market-leading text successfully combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and special emphasis on how leadership theory can inform leadership practice. Peter G. Northouse uses a consistent structure for each chapter, allowing students to easily compare and contrast the various theories. Case studies and questionnaires provide students with practical examples and opportunities to deepen their personal understanding of their own leadership.

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Northouse, Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice, 2e """Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice" demonstrates Northouse s depth and breadth of experience as an academician and consultant. He is patently passionate about communicating not only the essence of leadership but the manner in which thoughtful leadership can transform people, communities, and organizations."" -Journal of Leadership StudiesProviding practical strategies for becoming a better leader, this bestselling book includes interactive elements to help students apply leadership concepts to their own lives. Fullan, Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy Michael Fullan, working with effective change leaders, provides the skinny on motion leadership, or how to "move" individuals, institutions, and whole systems forward. Cycling from practice to theory and back again, this easy-to-read book offers examples from Fullan's global experience to help readers: Understand problems and work with changeMobilize peers to collaborateSpecialize in capacity buildingPromote learning as the work of individuals and organizationsMake progress and performance results transparentEarn trust by demonstrating integrity and competenceEnable others to become motion leaders

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Northouse, Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice, 2e """Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice" demonstrates Northouse s depth and breadth of experience as an academician and consultant. He is patently passionate about communicating not only the essence of leadership but the manner in which thoughtful leadership can transform people, communities, and organizations."" -Journal of Leadership StudiesProviding practical strategies for becoming a better leader, this bestselling book includes interactive elements to help students apply leadership concepts to their own lives. "A compelling approach to lasting educational change informed by lessons learned and new successes worldwide! "In an expressive and absorbing style, this penetrating volume offers a plan for viable and sustainable educational reform that reflects research on traditional methods and new findings from successful school initiatives around the globe.Beginning with an incisive analysis of the three major educational change efforts of the past 25 years, Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley offer a plan that integrates government policy, professional involvement, and public engagement to create an environment of greater inclusiveness, security, and humanity. Drawing on Four Horizons of Hope -examples of promising implementation and practice-the book demonstrates how districts and schools can achieve dramatic improvement built on: Six Pillars of Purpose that support changeThree Principles of Professionalism that drive changeFour Catalysts of Coherence that sustain changeWritten for educators, consultants, and administrators at the school and district level, "The Fourth Way" represents an innovative vision of educational change for meeting the dramatic problems and dynamic challenges facing educators in the 21st century.

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Written by experienced professionals in the fields of nursing and communication, this unique text helps nurses and other health care professionals improve their personal communication style for more effective provider-patient communication. This third edition delivers up-to-date, fact-based research and theoretical information in easy-to-understand terms. New models of communication have been added as well as a new chapter on multi-cultural issues. New material on communicating across the lifespan has been integrated throughout the book. All nursing and allied health students.