How Managers Have Learnt to Lead

An insight into the 'black-box' of leadership learning that acts as a companion to guide leadership development. It has been written to enable the reader to reflect on their own experience and critique this against four case profiles of leadership learning: the public and private sectors; women managers; and owner-managers.

'This thoughtful and challenging book is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning industry of leadership information dissemination.' - Gordon Harris, Professional Manager

'Refreshingly, this book has a good balance of headings and diagrams, free from the dense verbosity of many academic books. This makes reading an effective and satisfying experience for the academic researcher and for the practising manager alike. It is not cheap, but I still think it will be money well spent...this book has an easy-reading format that any reader can benefit from...for its academic credibility, I recommend this book as a source-book for research. For the easy reading utility of this book I recommend it to the lay reader' - Ken Parry, Director, Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University

'How Managers have Learnt to Lead captures the essence of what it means to learn to be a better leader. [It] does not just clarify what you should do when taking leadership action, [it] makes explicitly clear the development demanded of you if you are to become a better leader. I firmly believe that the approach to leadership learning presented in How Managers have Learnt to Lead can help you to assimilate and distil formal educational training and on the job experience into the wisdom needed to guide leadership action in a way appropriate to context. That is why I am sure that not only is there a need for How Managers have Learnt to Lead, but it is also long overdue. I highly recommend this book.' Geoff Sheard, Journal of Management Development

Autorentext
STEVE KEMPSTER is Professor of Leadership and Head of the School of Business and Enterprise at Cumbria University, UK. Previously Steve was at Lancaster University Management School where he was Director of the Management Development and Project Management Divisions, Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre and Director of the Full-time MBA. Recently Steve was Executive Director of the Northern Leadership Academy.

Inhalt
PART I Introduction: How Do Managers Learn to Lead? PART II What is Leadership, and Can it Be Learnt? How do we Learn? What is Understood about Leadership Learning and Development? So What do we know so far about Leadership Learning? PART III Revealing Leadership Learning From Lived Experience What are the Underlying Influences on Leadership Learning? Towards an Explanation of Leadership Learning Conclusion Epilogue References Index