The Practice of Leadership

PRAISE FOR THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP > —James MacGregor Burns, professor emeritus, Willams College, and Pulitzer Prize winner > —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author, On Becoming a Leader "The Practice of Leadership takes the reader beyond theory and hones in on the best of the best practices for leading organizations. It is a wonderful guide for the executive who aspires to be an exceptional leader!"
—Michael Grindon, president, Sony Pictures Television International > —Harry T. McMahon, vice chairman, Merrill Lynch & Company

The Editors Jay A. Conger holds the Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of twelve books, and he researches executive leadership, organizational change, boards of directors, executive derailment, and leadership development. BusinessWeek described him as the best professor to teach leadership to executives. Ronald E. Riggio is Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, and Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Riggio is the author or editor of over a dozen books and nearly 100 articles and book chapters.

Foreword vii
Bernard M. Bass About the Authors ix Introduction 01
Jay A. Conger and Ronald E. Riggio Part One: Leadership Development and Selection 09 1 Best Practices in Leader Selection 11
Ann Howard 2 Best Practices in Leadership Assessment 41
Manuel London, James W. Smither, and Thomas Diamante 3 Shifting the Emphasis of Leadership Development: From "Me" to "All of Us" 64
Patricia M. G. O'Connor and David V. Day 4 Getting Leader Development Right: Competence Not Competencies 87
Morgan W. McCall Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck Part Two: The Tasks of the Leader 107 5 Best Practices in the Use of Proactive Influence Tactics by Leaders 109
Gary Yukl 6 Creating the Conditions for Success: Best Practices in Leading for Innovation 129
Michael D. Mumford, Dawn L. Eubanks, and Stephen T. Murphy 7 Best Practices in Ethical Leadership 150
Craig E. Johnson 8 Best Practices in Team Leadership: What Team Leaders Do to Facilitate Team Effectiveness 172
Kevin C. Stagl, Eduardo Salas, and C. Shawn Burke Part Three: Leading the Organization 199 9 Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change: Workplace Recovery Following Major Organizational Transitions 201
Mitchell Lee Marks 10 Best Practices in Leading at Strategic Levels: A Social Responsibility Perspective 224
David A. Waldman 11 Best Practices in Corporate Boardroom Leadership 244
Jay A. Conger Part Four: Leading in Today's World 261 12 Best Practices in Leading under Crisis: Bottom-Up Leadership, or How to Be a Crisis Champion 263
Ian I. Mitroff 13 Best Practices in Leading Diverse Organizations 277
Lynn R. Offermann and Kenneth Matos 14 Best Practices in Cross-Cultural Leadership 300
Mary B. Teagarden 15 Getting It Right: The Practice of Leadership 331
Ronald E. Riggio and Jay A. Conger Notes 345 Index 389