Finding Your Voice: Learning to Lead . . . Anywhere You Want to Make a Difference - Tapa blanda

Matusak, Larraine R.

 
9780787903053: Finding Your Voice: Learning to Lead . . . Anywhere You Want to Make a Difference
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ISBN 10: 0787903051 ISBN 13: 9780787903053
Editorial: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Sinopsis

A remarkable book, the only one I know that focuses on how 'ordinary citizens' can learn to lead. Well-written and down-to-earth, more importantly, it is powerful testimony to the possibilities within all of us.
--Warren Bennis, university professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California

Offers a practical set of tools to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership, and shows how individuals without a title or position of power can pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.

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Acerca del autor

LARRAINE R. MATUSAK is leadership scholar and program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she designed and directed the Kellogg National Fellowship Program. She also led in the creation of the leadership grantmaking area at the Foundation. She has served in a wide variety of leadership roles, including president of Thomas A. Edison State College in New Jersey and dean and founder of the College of Alternative Programs at the University of Evansville, Indiana. Matusak is a consultatnt to numerous organizations, communities, academic institutions, and foundations.

De la contraportada

Credibility, empowerment, and collaboration are not just ideas for business and political leaders—they are concepts that ordinary citizens can grasp to bring out the leader within themselves and to effect positive social change at the grassroots level. Larraine R. Matusak, a noted expert on leadership development, describes leadership as a body of knowledge that can be taught and learned, and sets forth a practical set of tools and resources to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership. Using diverse examples of citizens who have accepted the responsibility to lead, Matusak shows how individuals who are without a title or position of power can still pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.

De la solapa interior

Credibility, empowerment, and collaboration are not just ideas for business and political leaders--they are concepts that ordinary citizens can grasp to bring out the leader within themselves and to effect positive social change at the grassroots level. Larraine R. Matusak, a noted expert on leadership development, describes leadership as a body of knowledge that can be taught and learned, and sets forth a practical set of tools and resources to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership. Using diverse examples of citizens who have accepted the responsibility to lead, Matusak shows how individuals who are without a title or position of power can still pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.

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Editorial
Jossey-Bass
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0787903051
ISBN 13 
9780787903053
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
220
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