Carroll, Stephen J.
The Persuasive Leader: Lessons from the Arts
This book provides insights and principles about persuasive leadership from a broad range of human experiences. It draws on examples of persuasive leaders and persuasive leadership principles from the performing arts, the fine arts, literature, philosophical writings, and biography. The authors use their unconventional material to explore themes such as moral leadership, toxic leadership, learning from failures, 'distributed' leadership, leading for results and the leader as a mentor and counsellor.
Leaders described in The Persuasive Leader:
Abraham Lincoln, Jack Welch, Cleopatra, Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander the Great, Rachel Carson, Joshua Chamberlain, Governor John Winthrop, Barack Obamma, Steve Jobs, Henry V, Julius Caesar, John Quincy Adams, Dwight Eisenhower, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Huey Long, Napoleon, Ghandi, Sam Walton, Archbishop Sean O'Malley, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Sinegal, Dolly Madison, James Jones, Clarence Darrow, William Harvey, Ronald Reagan, Fletcher Christian, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela, Charles McCormick, George Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Joan of Arc, John Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Christopher Columbus, Anita Roddick, John DeLorean, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and others less well known persuasive leaders such as Anne Sullivan, TS Lin, Maria Galantry, Dorothy Collins, Scott Nash, Jane Hughes, William Barnes.
Keywords: Management / Leadership, persuasive leadership, persuasive leadership in life and work, using aesthetics and the arts in persuasive leadership, using words effectively in persuasive speech and writing, persuasive leadership and rhetoric principles, persuasive leadership-planning considerations, , leader-follower emotional tie, leading sub-leaders and followers, persuasive Leadership and change, the realities of persuasion failures, harmful persuasion, self-leadership, achieving trust and cooperation, the noble persuasive leader, leadership emergence, why become a persuasive leader
- Author(s)
- Carroll, Stephen J.
- Flood, Patrick C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 288 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781119950226
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470688281