Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow

This book shows how Empowering Leadership (EL) can drive success in business and have an immense social impact.

Ryszard Praszkier (Author)

9781108422147, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 December 2017

262 pages, 68 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.56 kg

'Upon completing Praszkier's presentation, this reviewer can have but one reaction - WOW! We have just been presented with a text that sets forth both the depth and breadth of the subject, empowering leadership. The reader is given a conceptually insightful, theoretical framework that includes classical and contemporary thought. When studying in depth the substance of chapter 2 on the kinds of leadership, chapter 5 on complexity, or chapter 7 on creativity, the reader comes to appreciate the contribution of this text. Following this theoretical logic, the reader is presented with great case-study material. This reviewer, who appreciates and understands the theory and the case study perspectives, is pleased to award Dr Praszkier high marks on a job well. This is truly an exceptional book and is recommended for inclusion in most graduate library collections.' J. B. Kashner, Choice

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.

Subject Areas: Management: leadership & motivation [KJMB], Management & management techniques [KJM], Psychology [JM]