The Business of Leadership: An Introduction

The Business of Leadership fills the need for an undergraduate textbook on leadership specifically tailored to business students. It integrates a review of theories, as well as leadership competencies, using current and lively examples designed to generate student interest. Bowerman and Van Wart, strong academics who are also well connected in private and public enterprise, infuse each chapter with significant stories, cases, and illustrations.

The effective, career-based organization of the text takes readers from the kinds of leadership they can exhibit in supervisory roles to the visionary leadership they must exhibit in management and executive roles for ongoing organizational change and revitalization.

Key features of The Business of Leadership include:

Sharp focus for undergraduate business students who aspire to move from supervisory positions to management roles.

Unique blend of a review of the major theories and the major competencies required by business leaders at all levels of the organization.

Well-crafted learning tools羅with key terms, discussion questions, additional resources, classroom activities, and case analyses in each chapter.

360-degree leadership feedback instrument in the book's final chapter, useful for self-assessment of the reader's own leadership style.