Leadership For Global Citizenship: Building Transnational Community / Edition 1

by Barbara Crosby

Overview

Barbara C Crosby's book offers flexible and widely applicable tools for the exercise of global leadership for the common good - including group assessment, multiple perspectives on team and organizational dynamics, systems thinking, the democratic process, and the search for cross-cultural ethical principles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761917472
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/16/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barbara C. Crosby is associate professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and former academic co-director of the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota. She is a fellow of the Leadership Trust in the UK, and during 2002-3, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Crosby has taught and written extensively about leadership and public policy, integrative leadership, cross-sector collaboration, women in leadership, media and public policy, and strategic planning. She is the author of Leadership for Global Citizenship (1999) and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World (2d. ed. 2005). A frequent speaker at conferences and workshops, she has conducted training for senior managers of nonprofit, business and government organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Ukraine. She is a former journalist, gubernatorial press secretary and speech writer. She has a Ph.D. in leadership studies from the Union Institute and University.

Table of Contents

Leadership and Global Problems
Leadership in Context
Personal Leadership
Team Leadership
Organizational Leadership
Visionary Leadership
Political Leadership
Ethical Leadership
Putting It All Together

Editorial Reviews

Provides leadership guidance to citizen activists seeking to join in local and worldwide initiatives to promote the common good, including Amnesty International, Women's Rights Action Watch, and other organizations. Topics include a leadership framework and shared-power perspective; types of leadership in the "global commons," including personal, team, organizational, visionary, political, and ethical; and how various types of leadership are linked together in change cycles. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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