Encyclopedia of Leadership

HOW TO FIND WHAT YOU NEED(WHEN YOU NEED IT)

Our goal is to provide just-in-time assistance for typical leadership concerns.

Leadership tools have been gathered into 15 sections. Within each section, leadership tools

have been arranged from general to specific. You may wish to browse an entire section to find

precisely what you need, or just browse the expanded table of contents.

WHY THIS BOOK?

Cycle times are shorter. “Work smarter, not harder!” “Cut the organizational fat.” Change is

changing more rapidly. Moore’s Law has microprocessors doubling in performance every 18

months. The information age seems to be verging on the chaos age. Even slogans are getting

shorter!

Our response: “We’ve done your homework!” We’ve summarized over 130 of the most use-

ful leadership tools, and we present them here in an easy-to-use format. We have highlighted

core ideas of leadership—both classic and modern—and made it easy for you to apply them.

Like a dictionary, this is a reference you can leave at hand, ready to use, with models and ideas

for most of your leadership needs and questions.

WHAT WE’VE DONE FOR YOU

We’ve included tools that we use regularly in our leadership roles, those we consider to be the

most useful and enduring tools of the leadership trade. We’ve condensed them, so you can

xxiv HOW TOUSE ANDBENEFIT FROM THISBOOK

➠an educator  For introductory leadership courses, this book, organized into coherent sections for

study modules, provides overviews of all the major topics in the field.

 This book is one students will carry from the desks of academia to the desks of

industry.

➠a leadership coachor

mentor

 So, you’ve been asked to coach. This book provides the basis for over 130 coaching

meetings!

 For each coaching meeting, pick a pertinent leadership tool, read and discuss the

brief description together, then plan an application using the ideas in the book.

If you are... Here is how this book will help you:

Information Source Location:

A traditional table of contents page v

An annotated table of contents with a brief description of each leadership tool page xi

A traditional keyword index page 476

A listing of typical leadership concerns matched to book resources: “Here’s my problem. page xxvi

What tool do I need?”

Leadership Gurus matched to the topics they inspired page xxviii