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Level Three Leadership: Getting Below the Surface, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (January 4, 2011) © 2012

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For undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses in leadership, organizational behavior, and management.
A flexible approach to understanding and applying leadership.
Level Three Leadership (L3L) uses a flexible leadership model to help students and practicing managers understand and apply the principles of leadership. This text focuses on what managers can do to influence the thinking and feeling of others–rather than focusing on changing behavior.
The fifth edition has been significantly enhanced with additions based on the recommendations of reviewers and users.  
For undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses in leadership, organizational behavior, and management.
A flexible approach to understanding and applying leadership.
Level Three Leadership (L3L) uses a flexible leadership model to help students and practicing managers understand and apply the principles of leadership. This text focuses on what managers can do to influence the thinking and feeling of others—rather than focusing on changing behavior.
The fifth edition has been significantly enhanced with additions based on the recommendations of reviewers and users.  
Make the concepts accessible to students:
  • Flexible Leadership Model. This text provides a flexible leadership model that guides students through the steps necessary to create their own, practically applicable, model for influencing others.
  • Diamond Model of Leadership. This model focuses on self and strategic tasks to influencing others while showing how to design functional organizations and manage change.
  • The Leadership Point of View (LPV). The material was written from a leadership point of view, encouraging students to ask the following questions:
    • Do I see what needs to be done?
    • Do I understand all the forces at play?
    • Do I have courage to act and make things better?
  • Chapter-ending summary on key concepts. These end-of-chapter questions encourage students to reflect on the key concepts in the chapter they just read. Also provided in the end-of-chapter material includes:
    • A short case to help students apply the concepts
    • A guidance workbook with related activities
    • An invitation to submit more caselets online
  • The text includes chapters on the Language of Leadership and how speech can help them to lead more effectively.
NEW! Provide the latest information:
  • A new six-point decision model has been included in the chapter on Leadership and Ethics.
  • A new discussion on stress management has also been included in this edition.
NEW! Provide the latest information:
  • A new six-point decision model has been included in the chapter on Leadership and Ethics.
  • A new discussion on stress management has also been included in this edition.

Brief Contents

Section One: Introduction

  • Chapter 1. The Leadership Point of View
  • Chapter 2. The Diamond Model of Leadership in Organizations
  • Chapter 3. Levels of Leadership

Section Two: Strategic Frames

  • Chapter 4. The Changing Context of Leadership
  • Chapter 5. Strategic Thinking
  • Chapter 6. The Ethical Imperative of Level Three Leadership
  • Chapter 7. Innovation and Leadership
  • Chapter 8. Personal, Work Group, and Organizational Charters

Section Three: Self

  • Chapter 9. Self Leadership
  • Chapter 10. A Leader’s Guide to Why People Behave the Way They Do
  • Chapter 11. The Reb Model
  • Chapter 12. Leadership and Intelligence
  • Chapter 13. Resonance, Leadership, and the Purpose of Life
  • Chapter 14. The Global Leader

Section Four: Leading Others

  • Chapter 15. Leading Others
  • Chapter 16. The Appeal of Level One Leadership
  • Chapter 17. The Limits of Level Two Leadership
  • Chapter 18. The Focus and Impact of Level Three Leadership
  • Chapter 19. Six Steps to Effective Leadership
  • Chapter 20. The Language of Leadership
  • Chapter 21. Leading Teams

Section Five: Leading Design

  • Chapter 22. Leading by Design
  • Chapter 23. Human Resource Management Systems
  • Chapter 24. Leading Change

Section Six: Conclusion

  • Chapter 25. Conclusion

Section Seven: Workbook, Exercises, Bibliography, Appendix

  • Chapter 26: Workbook

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