IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-59068-9_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Overview and First Principles of Developing Leaders and Leadership

In: Developing Leaders and Leadership

Author

Listed:
  • David V. Day

    (Claremont McKenna College)

Abstract

The opening chapter provides an overarching framework and the motivation for this volume. A central thesis is that there is a need for more scholarly treatment of the science behind developing leaders and leadership. Instead of presenting what individuals need in the way of prescribed knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies, traits, and on and on, the approach presented in this volume focuses on the scientific study of leader and leadership development. How has the research been conducted methodologically? What are the kinds of variables used in related research? A major component of this introductory chapter is a set of First Principles that underpin how the development of leaders and leadership are considered scientifically along with a discussion of their implications. The First Principles of leader and leadership development proposed here are: (1) You cannot make anyone develop as a leader, (2) Development requires dedicated work over a long period of time, (3) To the extent that leadership is learned it is learned through experience, (4) The foundation of any meaningful developmental experience includes assessment, challenge, and support, and (5) There are evidence-based practices that support the development of leaders and leadership.

Suggested Citation

  • David V. Day, 2024. "Overview and First Principles of Developing Leaders and Leadership," Springer Books, in: Developing Leaders and Leadership, chapter 0, pages 1-23, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-59068-9_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-59068-9_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-59068-9_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.