Skip to Content
Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition
book

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

by Montgomery Van Wart, Paul Suino, Pamela S. Medina
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
15h 22m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

CHAPTER 2Understanding Theories of Leadership and Leadership Styles

DOI: 10.4324/9781003261896-3

Because leadership is a large and highly complex social phenomenon, we should not be surprised that many theories have been advanced to explain it. Consider the famous fable of the ten blind Indian men who had never seen an elephant. Each was trying to discover the nature of the elephant by investigation. After touching the side of the animal, one blind man asserted that the elephant was like a wall, and another on the other side of the elephant agreed. However, these men were contradicted by the third blind man who, after feeling the leg, stated that the elephant was really like a tree, and the three other men feeling the legs agreed with this ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition

David O. Renz, William A. Brown, Fredrik O. Andersson

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781000874037