Leadership: All You Need To Know 2nd edition

Authors: David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham



If you only read one book on leadership this year, make it this one! Leadership experts David Pendleton and Adrian Furnham present an innovative model for leadership success in a turbulent world.

When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. This thoroughly updated second edition shows how to make the kind of difference that all organizations, both public and private sector, want and need. Early chapters show the powerful effect leadership can have on organizations; subsequent chapters present new ideas that are elegantly simple, conceptually coherent and radically different, based on the best research in the field. The ideas in this book have also been tested in major multinational organizations over recent years. The aim is to provide leaders and those who work with them with a practical guide to how to increase the effectiveness of leadership in any organization.

Table of contents

Front Matter
Pages i-xxiii

The History of Thinking about Leadership
Pages 1-33

Leadership’s Impact on the Performance of Organisations
Pages 35-56

The Primary Colours of Leadership
Pages 57-75

Five Enablers of Leading
Pages 77-92

The Improbability of Being a Complete Leader
Pages 93-119

Building a Leadership Team
Pages 121-147

Do You Have to Be Smart to Be a Leader?
Pages 149-168

The Impact of Personality on Leadership
Pages 169-187

When It All Goes Wrong: Leaders Who Fail and Derail
Pages 189-207

A Programme of Action
Pages 209-225

Back Matter
Pages 227-254