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Leadership Theories

In: Emotional Impact

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  • Philip Channer
  • Tina Hope

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Leadership is like beauty: it’s hard to define, but you know it when you see it.1 Leadership is now a much-studied, much-defined and much-taught subject. By the mid-1990s Manfred Kets de Vries2 had already identified 70 published definitions of leadership, and there are no doubt more by now. In fact, according to Van Seters and Field3 we are already in at least the ninth identifiable era of thinking about leadership, which started with the great man theories, and continues today with transformational leadership – the leader as change agent. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the volume of study has not produced the same amount of clarity – Bennis and Nanus, who have contributed more than most to our understanding of leadership, say ‘leadership is the most studied and least understood topic of any in the social sciences’.4

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  • Philip Channer & Tina Hope, 2001. "Leadership Theories," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Emotional Impact, chapter 2, pages 7-9, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50884-2_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230508842_2
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