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Contents Introduction Part 1: Exploring Leadership -- A Personal Odyssey 1 The Qualities Approach 2 The Group or Functional Approach What is the Group or Functional Approach? 00; Applying the Group or Functional Approach to training 00 3 Leaders or Managers? Discovering the generic role of leader 00; The manager as leader 00 4 The Situational Approach What is the Situational Approach? 00; The origins of the Situational Approach 00; The Socratic tradition: can leadership be learnt? 00 5 Levels of Leadership The application of the Three Circles to organizations 00; The role of the strategic leader 00; Is it possible to transfer as a strategic leader from one organization to another? 00; On practical wisdom 00 Part 2: How to Grow Leaders -- The Seven Principles Principle One: Training for leadership The most common error 00; The second most common error 00; Training team leaders 00; You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla 00; Do `sheep dips' work? 00; How to manage leadership training 00 Principle Two: Selection How do people become leaders? 00; The principle of election 00; Applying the Group or Functional Approach to first-line leadership selection 00; Selection -- the wider framework 00 Principle Three: Line managers as leadership mentors What is a mentor? 00; The apprenticeship method 00; At least you can say `goodbye' 00 Principle Four: The chance to lead The military analogy 00; What can organizations do? 00; What constitutes a challenge? 00; Fortune favours the prepared mind 00 Principle Five: Education for leadership Thinking outside the box 00; Schools for leadership 00; Growing university leaders 00; New opportunities for `education for leadership'? 00 Principle Six: A strategy for leadership development Reviewing the strategy 00; Getting the structures right 00; What surrounds and infuses a successful strategy is culture 00 Principle Seven: The chief executive Learning to be a top strategic leader 00; What does a strategic leader have to do? 00; Make your presence felt in training for leadership 00 Conclusion
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Leadership.
Executives -- Training of.
Executive ability.