Navigating Leadership provides evidence-based tools and recommendations to develop your leadership successfully. The book integrates knowledge in the areas of leadership and followership from evidenced-based global research and translates the findings into suggestions for organizational best-practices.

Am I leader? How can I grow as a leader? How am I doing as leader? How can I move on and let go of leadership? In a changing world of work, people are confronted with these questions about their leadership every day. This book considers such topics as reflecting on goals, impostorism, memory, experiencing meaningfulness at work, measuring leader performance and the challenge of leaving leadership, to offer ideas and answers to these questions of what it means to be a leader and how you can thrive on your own personal leadership journey. Each chapter provides a range of applied cases, tools and techniques, and critical commentaries to help uncover your leader identity, address personal challenges, and accelerate your leadership development.

Addressing the persistent gap between research and practice in leadership and followership through research-practice translation, this is the ideal resource for professionals, at both an individual and organizational level, looking to support and increase leadership development. It will also appeal to scholars and students of leadership, followership, and leader identities.

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About the Author

Susanne Braun is Professor in Leadership and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research Students) at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Tiffany Keller Hansbrough is Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Bass Center for Leadership Studies, School of Management, Binghamton University, United States.

Gregory A. Ruark is Program Manager for Social Sciences at the Army Research Office, DEVCOM ARL, United States.

Robert G. Lord is Professor (Emeritus) in Leadership at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom. He was a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Akron, United States, for 38 years.

Rosalie J. Hall is Professor (Emeritus) of Management at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Olga Epitropaki is Professor in Management, Deputy Executive Dean (Research), at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Reviews

"Am I leader? To whom am I a leader? Should I even want to be a leader? Should others want me to be a leader? What self-aspects best exemplify my leadership? This book encourages its readers to start pulling the threads that unravel their implicit leader identity while simultaneously reweaving the tapestry towards a more explicit leader identity. Don't expect to simply sit back with a good cup of tea ready to be info-trained, this book challenges you to question and revise your preconceptions - so put on your workout headband instead and get ready to flex your leadership muscles."

Hannes Leroy, Professor in Leadership Development and Academic Director of the Erasmus Center for Leadership, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

"This edited volume is a unique collaboration between scholars from many parts of the world, and across the spectrum from seasoned, recognized leadership experts to newer scholars with fresh perspectives. It dispels the myth that leadership is not a science, sharing evidence-based but also clearly practical findings that will benefit the leaders of today and tomorrow."

Jenny M. Hoobler, Professor, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal, and Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology.

"Navigating Leadership represents the fruits of a multiyear international collaboration among a group of renown leadership scholars. The chapters translate what is known from the science of leadership into tangible recommendations and practical tools to help enhance and accelerate a leader's development. Leadership matters and the chapter authors explain in accessible and evidence-based ways why it matters and how to use their insights to help oneself or others become a more effective leader."

David V. Day, Professor, Claremont McKenna College, USA.

"This guide to developing one's identity, skills, and purpose as a leader brings together world-class scholarship, evidence-based teaching, and reality-driven examples. Navigating Leadership is a useful guide for those who teach leadership and those continuing to learn it."

Dolly Chugh, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, USA, and Author of The Person You Mean To Be and A More Just Future.

"Navigating Leadership provides a refreshing take on how contemporary leaders can develop in their role while acknowledging doubts and hurdles. The book includes many exercises for leaders, taking them from the reflexive stance they may take in their early career to the difficulties of exiting leadership roles. In this, identity-related challenges are addressed carefully, including through original interests into 'impostorism', alternating between follower and leader identity, and possible conflicts between role and professional identity. The shared sense of purpose and practice orientation in the group of editors and authors can be felt throughout."

Florence Villeseche, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032455372
Author Susanne Braun
Format Hardback
Page Count 254
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g