Promotional Information

This illuminating study critiques the concept of leadership as understood in the last 75 years and looks to the 21st century for a reconstructed understanding of leadership for the postindustrial era.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface The Problem with Leadership Studies An Overview of Leadership Studies Definitions of Leadership: 1900-1979 Leadership Definitions: The 1980s The Nature of Leadership Leadership and Management Leadership and Ethics in the 1990s Leadership in the Future Index

About the Author

JOSEPH C. ROST is Professor of Leadership and Administration in the School of Education, University of San Diego. He is the author of a number of articles and papers on leadership, politics, and policy making, and consults with organizations on leadership.

Reviews

?Though Joseph Rost is a name that may not be familiar to many doing leadership research or training, this book deserves the attention of leadership scholars. He has confronted the field of leadership studies with an unflinching and constructively critical assessment. His intent is to transform the ways in which we understand and practice leadership as we prepare for the challenges of the twenty-first century.?-The Leadership Quarterly

?What a pleasure to report on a new book in leadership studies--a term, not incidentally, with which the author has some considerable problems--that is simultaneously intelligent and provocative. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century is testimony both to Rost's breadth of knowledge and to his iconoclasm.?-Governance

"What a pleasure to report on a new book in leadership studies--a term, not incidentally, with which the author has some considerable problems--that is simultaneously intelligent and provocative. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century is testimony both to Rost's breadth of knowledge and to his iconoclasm."-Governance

"Though Joseph Rost is a name that may not be familiar to many doing leadership research or training, this book deserves the attention of leadership scholars. He has confronted the field of leadership studies with an unflinching and constructively critical assessment. His intent is to transform the ways in which we understand and practice leadership as we prepare for the challenges of the twenty-first century."-The Leadership Quarterly