The Leadership Book

Front Cover
Paulist Press, 1982 - 133 pages
Examines theories of management and shows their practical application in areas of Church leadership.
 

Selected pages

Contents

THE DILEMMAS OF LEADERSHIP
5
THE TWO DIMENSIONS OF LEADERSHIP
18
LEADERSHIP READING THE GROUP
29
LEADERSHIP HANDLING CONFLICT
41
IMPROVING OUR LEADERSHIP STYLE
54
LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING
65
LEADERSHIP AND PLANNING
78
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
88
LEADERSHIP AND DELEGATION
96
LEADERSHIP AND POWER
106
LEADERSHIP AND TIME MANAGEMENT
116
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP
125
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 9 - The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can. 2. Because of this human characteristic of dislike of work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational objectives.
Page 9 - The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all. Theory Y 1. The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest.
Page 10 - The average human being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek responsibility. 5. The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population.

Bibliographic information