This book proposes a kind of leadership that fosters bottom-up dynamics, empowering people, groups, teams, and societies. It examines the conceptual backbone and underlying mechanisms of Empowering Leadership (EL) for academics and students, and establishes practical guidelines for leadership development, including methods to enhance creativity.
This book proposes a kind of leadership that fosters bottom-up dynamics, empowering people, groups, teams, and societies. It examines the conceptual backbone and underlying mechanisms of Empowering Leadership (EL) for academics and students, and establishes practical guidelines for leadership development, including methods to enhance creativity.
Ryszard Praszkier is a researcher at the University of Warsaw. He is the author or co-author of many publications, including Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2011). He has worked for over two decades for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an international association promoting social innovators. He has been a second-opinion reviewer for more than 100 candidates to Ashoka Fellowship on nearly all continents.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Concept; Section 1. Leadership: 1. Traditional delineations of kinds of leadership; 2. Contemporary views on leadership; 3. Leadership and social influence; 4. Example: the specific social influence of social entrepreneurship; Section 2. Complexity and Networks: 5. Complexity: what does it mean?; 6. Something out of nothing: big social movements harnessing chaos into order; 7. Creativity: what it is and how it works; 8. Efficient networks; Section 3. Empowering Leadership: 9. Empowering leadership; 10. Preconditions for endogenous dynamics; Part II. Implementations; Section 4. Empowering Leadership in Action: 11. Empowering leadership in business; 12. Empowering leadership in social arena; Section 5. Being an Empowerer: 13. Some characteristics of an Empowerer; 14. How to enhance creativity; 15. Empowering as a lifestyle; Part III. Future; Section 6. How to Foresee the Future?: 16. Exploring the future; 17. Playing and dancing the future.
Part I. Concept Section 1. Leadership: 1. Traditional delineations of kinds of leadership 2. Contemporary views on leadership 3. Leadership and social influence 4. Example: the specific social influence of social entrepreneurship Section 2. Complexity and Networks: 5. Complexity: what does it mean? 6. Something out of nothing: big social movements harnessing chaos into order 7. Creativity: what it is and how it works 8. Efficient networks Section 3. Empowering Leadership: 9. Empowering leadership 10. Preconditions for endogenous dynamics Part II. Implementations Section 4. Empowering Leadership in Action: 11. Empowering leadership in business 12. Empowering leadership in social arena Section 5. Being an Empowerer: 13. Some characteristics of an Empowerer 14. How to enhance creativity 15. Empowering as a lifestyle Part III. Future Section 6. How to Foresee the Future?: 16. Exploring the future 17. Playing and dancing the future.
Part I. Concept; Section 1. Leadership: 1. Traditional delineations of kinds of leadership; 2. Contemporary views on leadership; 3. Leadership and social influence; 4. Example: the specific social influence of social entrepreneurship; Section 2. Complexity and Networks: 5. Complexity: what does it mean?; 6. Something out of nothing: big social movements harnessing chaos into order; 7. Creativity: what it is and how it works; 8. Efficient networks; Section 3. Empowering Leadership: 9. Empowering leadership; 10. Preconditions for endogenous dynamics; Part II. Implementations; Section 4. Empowering Leadership in Action: 11. Empowering leadership in business; 12. Empowering leadership in social arena; Section 5. Being an Empowerer: 13. Some characteristics of an Empowerer; 14. How to enhance creativity; 15. Empowering as a lifestyle; Part III. Future; Section 6. How to Foresee the Future?: 16. Exploring the future; 17. Playing and dancing the future.
Part I. Concept Section 1. Leadership: 1. Traditional delineations of kinds of leadership 2. Contemporary views on leadership 3. Leadership and social influence 4. Example: the specific social influence of social entrepreneurship Section 2. Complexity and Networks: 5. Complexity: what does it mean? 6. Something out of nothing: big social movements harnessing chaos into order 7. Creativity: what it is and how it works 8. Efficient networks Section 3. Empowering Leadership: 9. Empowering leadership 10. Preconditions for endogenous dynamics Part II. Implementations Section 4. Empowering Leadership in Action: 11. Empowering leadership in business 12. Empowering leadership in social arena Section 5. Being an Empowerer: 13. Some characteristics of an Empowerer 14. How to enhance creativity 15. Empowering as a lifestyle Part III. Future Section 6. How to Foresee the Future?: 16. Exploring the future 17. Playing and dancing the future.
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'Don't we all want to become better leaders? Ryszard Praszkier synthesizes an extraordinary amount of information on leadership, from theoretical perspectives to the work of great leaders from the business and social arena, and offers the reader practical steps on how to become an effective, creative and empowering leader.' Derek Brown, The Peace Appeal Foundation
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