Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow
Cambridge University Press, 12/28/2017
EAN 9781108422147, ISBN10: 1108422144
Hardcover, 262 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow examines leadership that enables and empowers others to co-participate, co-create, and experience the joy of creativity. It proposes a kind of leadership that fosters bottom-up dynamics, empowering people, groups, teams, and societies. Praszkier shows how this approach, called Empowering Leadership (EL), can drive success in business and, in the case of social entrepreneurship, have an immense social impact. Furthermore, he shows that EL style is also beneficial in other fields, such as parenting and counseling. The book presents diverse case studies from business and social arenas, as well as from family life. It establishes practical guidelines for leadership development, including methods to enhance creativity, and also casts an eye toward the future, demonstrating approaches to navigating future scenarios in a complex and unpredictable environment.
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.