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[...]... was to explore new ideas about the psychologyof leadership, an important and long-enduring research topic within the field of social psychology It was the opinion ofthe editors of this book andthe conveners ofthe conference that the social psychological study ofleadership had launched off into several new, interesting, and important directions It was also our belief that interest in the topic, within... and Brief's wise and thoughtful overview ofthe implications of these chapters for the question of when leadership matters and when it does not Their review ofthe ideas in this book challenge the common assumption in books about leadership that leadership is everything They note that some ofthe chapters imply that, in some 8 MESSICK AND KRAMER circumstances, leadership is rather unimportant But they... to claim that leadership never matters, and it is this question of "when" that becomes pivotal for them All in all, the chapters of this volume display part of a broad spectrum of novel and important approaches to the study of thepsychologyof leadership We hope that they are equally useful to those who are or would be leaders and to those who study the topic As the recent failures ofleadership in... with these qualities ascend to positions of leadership, or that the position of power or influence creates these qualities in whomever accepts the role The arrow of causality could point in either or both directions In chapter 2, Michelle Bligh and James Meindl examine the thousands of books that are available on the topic of leadership They ask if there are some "natural" categories into which these... highly accessible and voraciously consumed collection of beliefs, ideas, andperspectives about leadership that contextualize and inform theleadership process Popular leadership books thus reflect the societal and cultural factors that shape the process of leadership, providing an ambience that orients both leaders and followers and conditions their actions and reactions to each other This research is also... psychological process andleadership as afforded by 1 2 MESSICK AND KRAMER organizational constraints and opportunities Our goal has not been to focus the chapters on a single approach to the study and conceptualization ofleadership but rather to display the diversity of issues that surround the topic Leadership scholars have identified a host of approaches to the study ofleadership What are the personal... the personas and characteristics of leaders themselves (Meindl, 1990) In the current study, we sought to address the following two questions: (a) What issues, perspectives, and characteristics are the primary focus of popular leadership books today, and (b) how do these themes and principles contextualize and influence leadership processes, specifically how leaders and followers interact? In sum, the. .. to treat them as objects and to ignore others' internal states, like emotions, values, preferences, andthe like Through these mechanisms, if leading is the exercise of power, then that power tends to corrupt Finally, chapter 13 asks about the reputations and perceptions of leaders when they are dead as opposed to alive Allison and Eylon present research on the effects of a leader's legacy and reputation... (1995) review ofthe top 10 leadership books attempts to classify the books based first on overall management style, then on how well-regarded by the experts the books are, and finally by which ofthe "old masters" the book draws upon After all of these fail, Goodman turns to classifying the books based on readability and good taste, but comically concludes that none ofthe books fall into these categories... between the two sites might include any or all ofthe following sources of information: (a) the publisher's promotional information; (b) a brief synopsis ofthe book; (c) the table of contents; (d) the full text of one or more chapters; (e) text from the dust jacket and/ or back cover ofthe book; (f) the author's brief biography; (g) reviews from other authors or recognized authorities in the field; . psy-
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