The Learning Leader and the Five Perspectives of Change Leadership

This is a well researched, professionally written leadership book. The book attempts to explore a wide range of leadership issues in one volume. It has clarity, breadth and depth in every chapter. Its pedagogical features include a summary of each chapter, reflective exercises, epigraphs, empowering quotes and diagrams that are embedded consistently in every chapter. The key features of the book include: • Seven core skills of a learning leader • Three paradigm shifts for the learning leader • Three Ps of a belief system • Three environments that test the character of a learning leader • Four types of subordinates and how they impact organizational vision • The NEAR model of self-evaluation and adjustment • Self and social approval matrix • Persuasion and influencing strategies • The SUCCEED model of change leadership • Leadership at the family level • Pitfalls of leadership Undergraduate and postgraduate students of leadership, management, organizational behaviour, human resources management etc will find this text beneficial based on its academic robustness. Leadership practitioners in all sectors will find it useful and helpful based on easy application and clarity of the principles, strategies and models contained in it. This is a book with mass appeal and reaches out to anyone interested in leadership and self development. The author talks of leadership not only in the corporate world but also within the ‘nuclear family' and how traditional gender roles in modern society are sometimes reversed where the woman is the breadwinner and may earn more than her husband.