Navigating Leadership

"Am I leader? To whom am I a leader? Should I even want to be a leader? Should others want me to be a leader? What self-aspects best exemplify my leadership? This book encourages its readers to start pulling the threads that unravel their implicit leader identity while simultaneously reweaving the tapestry towards a more explicit leader identity. Don't expect to simply sit back with a good cup of tea ready to be info-trained, this book challenges you to question and revise your preconceptions - so put on your workout headband instead and get ready to flex your leadership muscles."

Hannes Leroy, Professor in Leadership Development and Academic Director of the Erasmus Center for Leadership, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

"This edited volume is a unique collaboration between scholars from many parts of the world, and across the spectrum from seasoned, recognized leadership experts to newer scholars with fresh perspectives. It dispels the myth that leadership is not a science, sharing evidence-based but also clearly practical findings that will benefit the leaders of today and tomorrow."

Jenny M. Hoobler, Professor, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal, and Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology.

"Navigating Leadership represents the fruits of a multiyear international collaboration among a group of renown leadership scholars. The chapters translate what is known from the science of leadership into tangible recommendations and practical tools to help enhance and accelerate a leader's development. Leadership matters and the chapter authors explain in accessible and evidence-based ways why it matters and how to use their insights to help oneself or others become a more effective leader."

David V. Day, Professor, Claremont McKenna College, USA.

"This guide to developing one's identity, skills, and purpose as a leader brings together world-class scholarship, evidence-based teaching, and reality-driven examples. Navigating Leadership is a useful guide for those who teach leadership and those continuing to learn it."

Dolly Chugh, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, USA, and Author of The Person You Mean To Be and A More Just Future.

"Navigating Leadership provides a refreshing take on how contemporary leaders can develop in their role while acknowledging doubts and hurdles. The book includes many exercises for leaders, taking them from the reflexive stance they may take in their early career to the difficulties of exiting leadership roles. In this, identity-related challenges are addressed carefully, including through original interests into 'impostorism', alternating between follower and leader identity, and possible conflicts between role and professional identity. The shared sense of purpose and practice orientation in the group of editors and authors can be felt throughout."

Florence Villesèche, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.