Snapshots of Great Leadership

by Jon P. Howell, Isaac Wanasika, Maria J. Mendez

Overview

Snapshots of Great Leadership describes leaders who have either accomplished amazing feats or brought destruction. Although the goals of these individuals were often quite different, the leadership processes they used were frequently similar. The opening chapter explains the latest theories of leadership. Each leader snapshot adds an important "reality check" to the theories and models described in most introductory leadership textbooks, making this a key text for students taking leadership courses. This new edition features additional women and international leaders, a new "You Decide" section, and a Conclusion that clarifies the differences between good and bad leaders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032368207
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/26/2024
Series:	Leadership: Research and Practice
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jon P. Howell is Professor Emeritus of Business, New Mexico State University, USA.

Isaac Wanasika is Associate Professor of Business, University of Northern Colorado, USA.

Table of Contents

Part I Theoretical Basis of Leadership 1. Theories of Leadership Part II Snapshots of Great Leadership 2. Harriet Tubman 3. Jeff Bezos 4. Bill Wilson 5. Mark Zuckerberg 6. Elizabeth Peratrovich 7. César Chavéz 8. Winston Churchill 9. Blake Mycoskie 10. Amancio Ortega 11. Angela Merkel 12. Martin Luther King, Jr. 13. Howard Schultz 14. Sitting Bull 15. Anita Roddick 16. Mohandas Gandhi 17. Mother Theresa 18. Pat Summitt 19. Steve Jobs 20. Konosuke Matsushita 21. Indra Nooyi 22. Mary Kay Ash 23. Ernest Shackleton 24. Abraham Lincoln 25. Leymah Gbowee 26. Nelson Mandela 27. Geronimo 28. Vince Lombardi 29. Napoleon Bonaparte 30. Nicolas Hayek 31. Horatio Nelson Part III Snapshots of Bad Leadership 32. Bernie Ebbers 33. Sepp Blatter 34. Adolph Hitler 35. Idi Amin 36. Al Dunlap 37. David Koresh Part IV Snapshots of Great or Bad Leadership—You Decide 38. Aung San Suu Kyi 39. Travis Kalanick 40. Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

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'Jon Howell is a well known researcher in the leadership field who has done a great service to students of leadership with this new book. He has plowed through a huge body of knowledge, and given students learning points and insights that no one before him had noticed. Jon has revealed the human side of leadership. This book reveals the flawed, yet admirable qualities of the leaders he describes, and shows us how deeply we are influenced by our upbringings, and by the people who we grow up with in what truly can be called "the formative years". The leaders presented in this book have made their marks in very different fields. Snapshots of Great Leadership provides a lens with which to view the leaders today with the benefit of our various theories and 21^st century insight.' - Steve Kerr, Provost, Chancellor University, Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs

'What do Steve Jobs, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Pat Summit, Geronimo, and Konosuke Matsushita have in common? Maybe several things, but, as the author makes clear, all have been great leaders in widely diverse settings, circumstances, and organizations. They and their life stories, along with 19 other remarkable leaders from all walks of life, are engagingly profiled in this extremely readable book. As an added bonus, as it were, five influential "bad" leaders are covered in the final chapters. All told, this combination, along with an opening chapter that succinctly reviews the major theories of leadership, provides instructors with a highly useful book for any class on leadership. It provides many, many concrete examples of leadership behavior in action, and I predict that students will greet these snapshots of great leaders with great enthusiasm!' - Lyman Porter, University of California, Irvine.

"I teach leadership at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I think Jon Howell has done all faculty teaching leadership a huge favor by compiling this book of outstanding leaders (and a few bad ones) in Snapshots of Great Leadership. My experience confirms his; students derive the most learning from learning about what real leaders do and have done. Learning about the theories follows far more easily with this as the starting point. I would use this book as a stand-alone text. The theories can be expanded upon as needed. This book saves countless hours trying to amass the backgrounds and experiences of extraordinary leaders to use in our leadership classes." - Leanne Atwater, Chairperson and Professor, Department of Management, University of Houston

'Students and faculty are always searching for cogent examples of good and bad leadership. This book makes leadership theory and research come alive with a host of compelling cases, present and past, from a variety of walks of life including business, government, the military, sports, and religion. The rich biographies are excellent stimuli for discussion, analysis, and comparison. Managers and executives will find the cases intriguing. They shed light on leadership that goes beyond what people commonly know, or think they know, about well-known, and some not-so-well-known entrepreneurs, CEOs, and officials.' - Manuel London, Dean, College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook

'We’ve needed a resource like this for a long time. The snapshots provide compelling illustrations of different types of leaders and their actions…including "bad" leaders. This is just what we’ve needed to bring these leadership concepts home to our students.' - James Weber, Management Department, GR Herberger Business School, St. Cloud State University

Editorial Reviews

"In Snapshots of Great Leadership 2e, Jon Howell and Isaac Wanasika provide very clear syntheses of leadership theories and the matrix they provide of how good and bad leadership relates to specific theories is invaluable. This text could effectively be used as a primary or secondary text in teaching leadership. In short, it is an excellent resource that is both substantive and user-friendly." - Peter G. Northouse, Western Michigan University, USA

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