Effective leadership and organizational performance are concepts that continue to receive widespread attention in the business world. This book explores the importance of strategic leadership and the value it adds to organizations. It focuses on strategies to achieve market success and organizational performance as well as the challenges of leading in a fluctuating market. The book looks at recent trends in leadership development and the different styles of leadership. It dispels existing myths about leadership and offers an understanding of principles which will allow leaders to be more adaptable and effective and steer businesses and organizations into a more stable future. This book will be of interest to researchers and students working in the field of business, organizational communication, business management, human resource management and business studies.

Microbiology as a science has expanded by leaps and bounds in the past few decades due to advancements in sophisticated instrumentation and recombinant DNA technology which added new dimension and revealed the understanding of the subject at a molecular level. This has resulted in the emergence of several applications of this domain. This book have been complied with the help of leading Microbiologists from India and other countries with an objective of providing current developments in the field of Microbiology. This book will be useful for under and postgraduate students, academicians, researchers and laboratory personnel from disciplines like Microbiology, Biochemistry, Veterinary Science, Medicine, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Food Science, Environmental Science, Industrial Microbiology and other allied Biological Sciences.