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Leadership: Theory and Practice By Peter G Northouse Sage Publications, New Delhi (2007), pp. 391; Price: $63 ISBN: 978-81-7829-786-6 (PB)
Leadership - has always been a fascinating subject both for practitioners and for students - as well as in the fields of management and other more powerful areas such as politics and military. Every decade has to find new methods of dealing with older concepts and reorient those interested on the challenges peculiar to that decade. The fall of Soviet Union deeply affected the 1990s almost to the point of announcing the conquest of socialism by capitalism. The failure of market mechanism in the last years of the first decade of the new millennium is throwing up a new definition of leadership - and an agonizing reappraisal of both the theory and practice.
The author has made a comprehensive attempt to define leadership based on four approaches: trait, skills, style and situational. Each of these approaches have been dealt in theory as well...