Table of Contents

Part I; 1. Why Leadership Development Matters; 2. The Nature of Leadership; 3. How Leadership Development Works; Part II The Seven Principles of Leadership Development; 4. A strategy for leadership development; 5. Selection; 6. Training for leadership; 7. A career development policy; 8. Line managers as leadership mentors; 9. Self-development; 10. Strategic leadership; Part III Leadership Development in practice; 11. ICI; 12. Mitsubishi; 13. Armenian Leadership Development Forum; 14. Surrey University Engineering Department; 15. Armed Forces; 16. Evaluating ACL training; 17. A brief look at the evaluation of leadership development training; Conclusion.

About the Author

The leading UK leadership guru, and one of only a handful of UK management thinkers to achieve international recognition. John Adair invented the concept of Action Centred Leadership.