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Hard Times : Leadership in America by Barbara Kellermann is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hard Times : Leadership in America about?

A “highly perceptive” analysis of the crisis of leadership in 21st-century America, written in “an exhilaratingly readable style” (Archie Brown, Oxford University, author of  The Myth of the Strong Leader ). Selected by  Choice  as an Outstanding Academic Book Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America’s national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private sector leaders are widely seen as greedy to the point of being corrupt. Public sector leaders are viewed as incompetent to the point of being inept. And levels of trust in government have plummeted. As the title of this book conveys, leaders in America are experiencing hard times. Barbara Kellerman argues that we focus on leaders, and even on followers, while ignoring an essential element of leadership: context. This book is a corrective. It enables leaders to track the terrain that they must navigate in order to create change. Rather than a handy-dandy manual on what to do and how to do it,  Hard Times  is structured as a checklist. Twenty-four brief sections cover key aspects of the American landscape. They trace evolutions and revolutions that have revised our norms, transformed o

Who reads Hard Times : Leadership in America?

Author

Barbara Kellermann

Publisher

Stanford, California: Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804792356

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Sociology