Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership - Redefining Who Leads and How

An innovative guide to reshaping leadership practices to meet the needs of our changing world

The important new approach to leadership that John Gordon and Joyce Berry explain in this book is built upon the experiences of environmental and natural resource organizations as they contend with complex, long-term problems. But the lessons learned apply beyond these groups--to all modern organizations, for-profit and non-profit, that are dealing with the complicated conditions of the twenty-first century.Leadership is a learned skill and can be acquired by anyone willing to make the effort, say the authors. And, through case studies of a variety of organizations, they emphasize that all members of productive groups must be ready to take the lead when their specific skills are most relevant to the problem at hand. The authors analyze how organizations and individuals can adopt this new leadership mode, and they discuss the results of a recent survey of leadership ideas and attitudes among active environmental leaders. Shifting emphasis away from celebrated leaders on the world stage, Gordon and Berry focus on "essential" leadership--the kind that engages each member of an organization on an everyday basis.

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States that leadership is a learned skill and can be acquired by anyone willing to make the effort. Through case studies of a variety of organizations, the authors emphasise that all members of productive groups must be ready to take the lead when their specific skills are most relevant to the problem at hand.

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• Authors: Joyce Berry, Joyce K Berry, Joyce K. Berry, Berry Joyce K., John Gordon, John C Gordon, John C. Gordon, John C. Berry Gordon, John C./ Berry Gordon, GORDON JOHN C BERRY JOYCE K, Gordon John C.
• Assisted by: Christensen Norman L. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2012
• EAN: 9780300111347
• ISBN: 978-0-300-11134-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations