An authoritative, up-to-date reference guide organized in A to Z fashion covering all the major inter-disciplinary themes related to individual and group leadership in the African American communities and beyond.

Table of Contents

• Reader's Guide
• Contributor List
• About the Editor
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Articles
• A
• Abolition Movement
• Affirmative Action
• African American Fraternities and Sororities
• African American Leadership Institute
• African American-Owned Businesses
• African Free School
• Afrocentrism
• American Negro Theater
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• Astronauts and the Space Program
• B
• Back-to-Africa Movement
• Bethune-Cookman College
• Black Business Network
• Black Enterprise
• Black Entertainment Television
• Black Hebrew Israelites
• Black Power Movement
• Religion
• Black Theatre Network
• Black Women's Club Movement
• Boycotts
• C
• Civil Rights Leadership
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Congressional Black Caucus
• Corporate Leadership
• Critical Race Theory
• D
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
• Discrimination
• Dorothy I. Height Leadership Institute
• Dunbar High School
• E
• Education for Leadership
• Entrepreneurs
• Executive Leadership Council
• F
• Fisk University
• Freedom Rides
• G
• Gender and Leadership
• Gender Discrimination
• Glass Ceiling
• Government, Leadership in
• Great Migration
• H
• Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem Writers Guild
• Heritage and Memory of Slavery
• Highlander Citizenship School
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Howard University
• I
• Individualism and Collectivism
• Institute for the Study of the African American Child
• Institute of African American Research
• International Organizations, Leadership in
• Inventions and Patents
• L
• Leadership, Definitions of
• Leadership Styles
• League of Black Women Global Leadership Conference
• Legal and Political Organizations
• Literature
• M
• March on Washington (1963)
• Mathematics
• Medicine and Nursing
• Military Leadership
• Million Man March
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Morehouse School of Medicine
• Movies
• N
• Nation of Islam
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Black Chamber of Commerce
• National Coalition of 100 Black Women
• National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
• National Urban League
• Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership in
• O
• 100 Black Men of America, Inc.
• P
• Politics, Leadership in
• Popular Music
• Public Health
• R
• Redlining
• Religion and Leadership
• Reverse Discrimination
• S
• School Desegregation
• Scientific Research and Discovery
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Sports and Leadership
• Stereotype Threat
• Stereotypes About African Americans
• T
• Talented Tenth, The
• Television
• Theater
• Thurgood Marshall College Fund
• TransAfrica
• Tuskegee University
• U
• Underground Railroad
• United Negro College Fund
• V
• Voter Registration and Voting
• W
• Wilberforce University
• Women
• Resource Guide
• Leadership Glossary
• Introduction
• About the Editor
• Leadership Glossary
• 16PF Questionnaire
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Abilene paradox
• Absenteeism
• Absorption
• Abusive supervision
• Academic freedom
• Accommodating style
• Adaptive expectations
• Adaptive leadership
• Adaptive performance
• Adhocracy culture
• Adultism
• Adversarial process
• Advice
• Advice utilization
• Affect
• Affective forecasting
• Agency
• Agent of influence
• Agentic leadership
• Agreeableness
• Akrasia
• Alexander the Great
• Alpha
• Ambassador
• Ambiguity effect
• Ambiguity tolerance
• “The American Dream and the Popular Novel”
• American system of manufacturing
• Anarchism
• Anchoring
• Andorra
• Anti-authoritarianism
• Anti-intellectualism
• Appeasement
• Applied psychology
• Appreciative inquiry
• Arab Spring
• Architectures of control
• Archontology
• Argument from authority
• Argumentation theory
• Aristotle
• The Art of War
• Arthashastra
• Asch conformity experiments
• Asociality
• Assertiveness orientation
• Aston Group
• Atlas Shrugged
• Attachment theory
• Attitude
• Attitude change
• Attributional bias
• Authentic leadership
• Authentic Leadership Inventory
• Authenticity
• Authoritarianism
• Authority
• Authority problem
• Autocracy
• Autonomy
• Autonomous work group
• Avolio, Bruce
• Bakunin, Mikhail
• Balanced processing
• Basking in reflected glory
• Bass, Bernard
• Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
• “Bear in the woods”
• Behavioral complexity
• Behavioral script
• Behavioral theories of leadership
• A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
• Bell Telephone Company
• Belongingness
• Benchmarking
• Benevolent authoritative
• Bennis, Warren
• Best practice
• Bet-the-company culture
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
• Big Five
• Big Man
• Big Stick
• Bobo Doll experiment
• Bonaparte, Napoleon
• Boreout
• Boundary spanning
• Bradley effect
• Brainstorming
• Bread and Circuses
• Broaden and build theory of positive emotions
• Brute fact
• Bullying
• Bureaucracy
• Burnout
• Burns, James MacGregor
• Business continuity planning
• Business decision mapping
• Business education
• Business fable
• Business game
• Business magnate
• Business process
• Business process outsourcing
• Business process reengineering
• Business school
• Business speak
• Buzzword driven development
• Bystander apathy
• Cadillac management
• Caesaropapism
• Carlyle, Thomas
• Cascading failure
• Case method
• Case study
• Catholic Church, leadership in
• CAVE dwellers, CAVE people
• Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
• Center for Creative Leadership
• Center for Ethical Leadership
• Center for Public Leadership
• Chakravartin
• Change management
• Chargé d'affaires
• Charisma
• Charismatic leadership or charismatic domination
• Chauvinism
• Checkbook diplomacy
• Cherry picking
• Churchill, Winston
• Civic engagement
• Civic intelligence
• Civic leadership
• Clan culture
• Classics
• Classroom management
• Coaching
• Coercion
• Coercive diplomacy
• Coercive power
• Co-evolution of genes and culture
• Cognitive ancestral leader prototypes
• Cognitive bias
• Cognitive bias mitigation
• Cognitive complexity
• Cognitive development
• Cognitive resource theory
• The Cold War
• Collaborative governance
• Collaborative leadership
• Collective identity
• Collective intelligence
• Collective responsibility
• Collectivism
• Command responsibility
• Communal reinforcement
• Communicative rationality
• Comparative leadership studies
• Competence, four stages of
• Competency
• Competing Values Framework
• Complaint system
• Complexity leadership theory
• Complexity theory
• Compliance
• Confidence-building measures
• Confirmation bias
• Conflict resolution
• Conformity
• Confucius
• Conscientiousness
• Consensus
• Consensus decision making
• Consent of the governed
• Consequential strangers
• Considerate style of leadership
• Consideration
• Constitutional monarchy
• Constructivism
• Consultative system
• Consumer confidence
• Contagious shooting
• Contingency theory
• Continuous improvement
• Control freak
• Corporate climate
• Corporate governance
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Coughlin, Charles
• Counter-insurgency
• Court-packing plan
• Cowboy diplomacy
• Craft analogy
• Cravath system
• Creative class
• Creative industries
• Credentialism
• Creeping normality
• Critical mass
• Critical reflection
• Critical thinking
• Croly, Herbert
• Cross-cultural communication
• Crowd manipulation
• Crystallized intelligence
• Crystallized self
• Cult of personality
• Cultural determinism
• Cultural diplomacy
• Cultural diversity
• Cultural heritage hypothesis
• Cultural schema
• Culture and affect display
• Culture trust and distrust
• Cyber-harassment in the workplace
• “Daisy”
• Dalai Lama
• Decentralized decision making
• Decision engineering
• Decision making
• Decision-making model of leadership
• Decision theory
• Deep blue sea
• Defensive realism
• Definition of the situation
• Defense mechanism
• Deformation professionnelle
• Deindividuation
• Deliberative democracy
• Demagogue
• Demand control model
• Deming, W. Edwards
• Democratic peace theory
• Depersonalization
• Descriptive
• Descriptive representation
• Design by committee
• Deterrence theory
• Dictatorial style
• Dictatorship of the proletariat
• Differential psychology
• Diffusion of innovations
• Diffusion of responsibility
• Dilbert Principle
• Diplomacy
• Diplomat
• Diplomatic history
• Direct democracy
• Disney method
• Dispositional affect
• Dispute system
• Dissanayake, Ellen
• Dissident
• Divide and conquer
• Divine right of kings
• Dollar diplomacy
• Dominant minority
• Draft
• Dramaturgy
• Drive theory
• Drucker, Peter
• Dunning-Kruger effect
• Dyad
• Early adopter
• Eating your own dog food
• Economic history
• Educational psychology
• Efficiency movement
• Effort heuristic
• Ego psychology
• Egocentric advice discounting
• Elites
• Elitism
• Elizabeth I
• Emerson, Harrington
• Emotional aperture
• Emotional competence
• Emotional contagion
• Emotional intelligence
• Emotional self-regulation
• Emotional tyranny
• Emotions in the workplace
• Empathic accuracy
• Empathy
• “The Emperor's New Clothes”
• Empire building
• Employee
• Employee engagement
• Employee morale
• Employee silence
• Employee survey
• Employeeship
• Empowerment
• Engineering management
• Enhancers
• Entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurial leadership
• Environmental psychology
• Episcopal ordination
• Equal consideration of interests
• ERG theory
• Escalation of commitment
• Ethical leadership
• Ethics
• Ethology
• Evaluating leadership
• Evaluation
• Evolutionary leadership theory
• Evolutionary psychology
• Executive
• Executive development
• Executive education
• Expectancy theory
• Expectancy violations theory
• Expert authority
• Expert power
• Experiential education
• Experiential learning
• Experimental political science
• Exploitative authoritative
• Extra-role behavior
• Extraversion
• Extrinsic motivation
• Eye contact
• Fa
• Facial expression
• Facilitator
• Family as model for the state
• Fayolism
• Fear mongering
• Ferguson, Missouri
• Fiedler, Fred
• Fiedler contingency model
• Figurehead
• “First they came …”
• Flat organization
• Flow
• Fluid intelligence
• Follett, Mary Parker
• Followership
• Followership patterns
• Fordism
• Forer effect
• Founder's syndrome
• Four Frames
• Four psychologies
• Freethought
• French and Raven's bases of power
• Freud, Sigmund
• The friendship paradox and centrality
• Fuhrerprinzip
• Full Range Leadership Model
• Functional leadership theory
• Future orientation
• Galbraith's Anatomy of Power
• Game theory
• Gandhi, Mahatma Mohandas
• Gantt chart
• Gardner, Howard
• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
• Gender and leadership
• Gender egalitarianism
• Generation gap
• Gesture
• Gilbreth, Frank, Sr
• Gilbreth, Lillian
• Global leadership
• GLOBE Project
• Goffman, Erving
• “Good enough”
• Good Manufacturing Practices
• Grand theory of leadership
• Great Men
• The Greatest Salesman in the World
• Group affective tone
• Group cohesiveness
• Group conflict
• Group decision making
• Group emotion
• Group narcissism
• Group polarization
• Groupthink
• Groupware
• Guru
• Habermas, Jurgen
• Hallyu
• Halo effect
• Hansei
• Happiness
• Haptics
• Hard power
• Harvard Business Review
• Hawthorne studies
• Hazing
• The hedgehog's dilemma
• Hedonistic relevance
• Heifetz, Ronald
• Herd behavior
• Here Comes Everybody
• Heterarchy
• Hierarchy
• Hierarchy culture
• Hinduism
• History
• The Hitler Problem
• Hofstede, Geert
• Hoshin Kanri
• Hostile media effect
• Hostile work environment
• Hot-cold empathy gap
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Human microphone
• Human orientation
• Human relations theory
• Human resource management
• Human Resources frame
• Hundred Flowers Campaign
• Hunter-gatherer societies
• Identity negotiation
• Identity shift effect
• Idiosyncrasy credits
• “If it ain't broke, don't fix it”
• Ignoratio elenchi
• Immune neglect
• Impact bias
• Impeachment
• In-group
• In-group collectivism
• Inclusive management
• Inclusivity
• Inattentional blindness
• Incrementalism
• Indifferent style
• Individualism
• Individualism versus collectivism
• Industrial engineering
• Industrial psychology or I/O psychology
• Industrial sociology
• Influence
• Informal fallacy
• Informational power
• Informational social influence
• Initiating structure
• Institutional economics
• Institutional collectivism
• Instrumentality
• Intelligence
• International Leadership Association
• Instructional theory
• Intellectual history
• Internalized moral perspective
• Intrinsic motivation
• Intuition
• Iroquois Confederacy Grand Council
• Jepson School of Leadership Studies
• Jesus as leader
• Joan of Arc
• Job Characteristics Model
• Job enrichment
• Job rotation
• John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Judge-adviser system
• Judicial activism
• Jung, Carl
• Juran, Joseph
• Jus ad bellum
• Jus in bello
• Just war
• Juvenal
• Kaizen
• Kellerman, Barbara
• Keynesian Revolution
• Kinesics
• King, Martin Luther, Jr
• Knew-it-all-along
• Knowledge
• Kritarchy
• Lacan, Jacques
• Laissez-Faire
• Lateral communication
• Lateral thinking
• Law of the instrument
• Law of war
• Leader Authenticity Scale
• Leader-member exchange theory
• Leadership
• Leadership (journal)
• Leadership accountability movement
• Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire
• The Leadership Challenge
• Leadership development
• Leadership Institute at Harvard College
• Leadership presence
• Leadership pedagogy
• Leadership philosophy versus leadership theory
• Leadership psychology
• Leadership Quarterly
• Leadership Series
• Leadership studies
• Lean
• Learning by doing
• Learning by teaching
• Learning theory
• Least preferred coworker
• Legalism
• Legitimacy
• Legitimacy (French and Raven)
• Leveling
• Lexical hypothesis
• Liberal arts
• Liberum veto
• Life coach
• Lifestyle guru
• Likert, Rensis
• Likert's management systems
• Lincoln, Abraham, as leader
• Lockstep compensation
• The Lonely Crowd
• Long- versus short-term orientation
• Lucretius
• Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
• Management consulting
• Management development
• Management fad
• Management by objectives
• Management by perkele
• Management by results
• Management by wandering around
• Managerial grid model
• Mandate of Heaven
• Mandela, Nelson
• Market culture
• Martin, John Levi
• Maryland School of Public Policy
• Marxism
• Masculinity versus femininity
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• Maternalism
• Matriarchy
• Maxwell School
• Mayo, Elton
• MBA
• Men's rights movement
• Mentoring
• Mentoring techniques
• Metamotivation
• Mexican standoff
• Michigan Studies of Leadership
• Micromanagement
• Milgram, Stanley
• Milgram experiment
• Minority influence
• Mintzberg, Henry
• Mirror neuron
• Mirrors for Princes
• Mirroring
• Mismatch hypothesis
• Mission Accomplished speech
• Mission creep
• MIT Sloan School of Management
• Modes of leadership
• Monarch
• Monitoring competence
• Monopoly on violence
• Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Moral development
• Moral hazard
• Motivation
• Motivation crowding theory
• Motivation-hygiene theory
• Mozi
• Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire
• Multiple Constituency Framework
• Munsterberg, Hugo
• Murray, Henry
• Mushroom management
• Mutually assured destruction
• My Lai Massacre
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Narcissism
• Narcissistic defense
• Narcissistic parent
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• NASA Academy
• National Youth Leadership Council
• “The Nature of the Firm”
• Need for achievement
• Need for affiliation
• Need for cognition
• Need for power
• Negative selection
• Negativity effect
• Negotiation theory
• Nemawashi
• Nepotism
• Neuromanagement
• Neuroticism
• Neutralizers
• NIMBY
• Nirvana fallacy
• Noble lie
• Non-concurrence
• Nonverbal influence
• Normative model of decision making
• Normative social influence
• Northouse, Peter
• Not invented here
• Novelty seeking
• Nut Island effect
• Oakes, Len
• Obedience
• Object relations theory
• Occupational health psychology
• Occupy movement hand signals
• Occupy Wall Street
• Offensive realism
• Office of the future
• Ohio State Leadership Studies
• Old boys' club
• Old Testament
• The One Minute Manager
• One-upmanship
• Openness
• Opinion leader
• Opportunity cost
• The Organization Man
• Organizational behavior
• Organizational citizenship behavior
• Organizational culture
• Organizational dissent
• Organizational identification
• Organizational intelligence
• Organizational justice
• Organizational psychology
• Organizational socialization
• Organizational storytelling
• Organizational Studies
• Out of the Crisis
• Outgroup
• Outside the box
• Overconfidence effect
• Overjustification effect
• Overplacement
• Overton window
• Panda diplomacy
• Papal conclave
• Parental responsibility
• Parentification
• Parenting
• Parenting style
• Pareto principle
• Participative system
• Participatory management
• Passing the buck
• Passive-aggressive behavior
• Pater familias
• Paternalism
• Path-goal theory
• Patriarchy
• PDCA
• Peace through strength
• Peak experience
• Pecking order
• Pedagogy leaders
• Peer mentoring
• Peer pressure
• Penalty authority
• People's history
• People skills
• Perceived psychological contract violation
• Performance improvement
• Performance orientation
• Pericles
• Person culture
• Person/situation debate
• Personal branding
• Personal leadership
• Personality clash
• Personality theories of leadership
• Peter Principle
• Philosopher
• Philosopher Kings
• Piaget, Jean
• Ping pong diplomacy
• Planning fallacy
• Plato's Academy
• Pluralistic ignorance
• Plutarch
• Political frame
• Political philosophy
• Political science
• Popular sovereignty
• Populism
• Positive psychological capital
• Positive Psychology
• Post, Jerrold
• Post-Fordism
• Power
• Power culture
• Power distance
• Pragmatism
• Pre-attentive processing
• Precautionary principle
• Prescriptive
• Presentism
• Preventive diplomacy
• Priming
• The Prince
• Private leadership
• Problem-solving courts
• Problem statement
• Procedural justice
• Process culture
• Professional identification
• Professional network service
• Project engineer
• Project manager
• Promoting adversaries
• Proxemics
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychodynamic approaches to leadership
• Psychology of reasoning
• Psychological contract
• Psychological immune system
• Psychological safety
• Psychometrics
• Ptah Hotep
• Public administration
• Public diplomacy
• Public interest
• Public leadership
• Public management
• Public policy
• Public-private partnership
• Pygmalion effect
• Quaker-based consensus
• Quality management
• Quality storyboard
• Queen bee syndrome
• “Quest for causality”
• Qui facet per alium facit per se
• RAND Corporation
• Random choice
• Ratchet effect
• Rational choice theory
• Rational-legal authority
• Reactivity
• Realism
• Reference class forecasting
• Referent authority
• Referent power
• Reinvent the wheel
• Relational leadership
• Relational transparency
• Relationship-oriented leadership
• Relevance paradox
• Reputation management
• Resilience
• Respondeat superior
• Responsible autonomy
• Reward authority
• Reward dependence
• Reward power
• Right-wing authoritarianism
• Ringelmann effect
• Risk management
• Risk perception
• Robert's Rules of Order
• Role congruity theory
• Role culture
• Role engulfment
• Romance of leadership
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., as leader
• Root cause analysis
• Rost, Joseph
• Rotation method
• Rutgers University School of Public Affairs and Administration
• Sabotage
• Sage kings
• Salesman
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• Satisficing
• Savanna principle
• Scenario planning
• Schema
• Scientific management
• Scope creep
• Seagull management
• Secession
• Second-term curse
• Second-wave feminism
• Security dilemma
• Self-awareness
• Self-concept
• Self-conscious emotions
• Self-consciousness
• Self-determination theory
• Self-efficacy
• Self-esteem
• Self-evaluation maintenance theory
• Self-image
• Self-management
• Self-monitoring
• Self-perception theory
• Semmelweis effect
• Sensation seeking
• Serious games
• Servant leadership
• Service learning
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• Shared information bias
• Shunning
• Shyness
• Simon, Herbert A
• Simulation theory of empathy
• Situated cognition
• Situational leadership theory
• Smith, Adam
• Social anxiety
• Social cognition
• Social cognitive theory
• Social compensation
• Social competence
• Social desirability bias
• Social emotions
• Social engineering
• Social entrepreneurship
• Social exchange theory
• Social exclusion
• Social facilitation
• Social inhibition
• Social integration
• Social intelligence
• Social intuitionism
• Social justice
• Social loafing
• Social norm
• Social proof
• Social psychology
• Social sciences
• Social skills
• Social undermining
• Socially distributed cognition
• Sociotropy
• Soft power
• Soft skills
• Soldiering
• Somebody Else's Problem
• Sortition
• Sound style
• Spreadthink
• Stability-instability paradox
• Stakeholder
• Standing on the shoulders of giants
• Stanford prison experiment
• State within a state
• Statesmanship
• Status group
• Status quo style
• Stereotype threat
• Stewardship
• Stogdill, Ralph M
• Strategic contingencies theory
• Strategic management
• Strategic planning
• Straw man
• Strong versus weak governors
• Structural frame
• Structure
• Substantive representation
• Substitutes
• Substitutes for leadership theory
• Succession planning
• Sudbury school
• Superior orders
• Supermajority
• Suppression of dissent
• Symbolic Frame
• Systems thinking
• Tao te Ching
• Task culture
• Task-oriented leadership
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow
• Team
• Team-based leadership
• Team composition
• Terror Management Theory
• Theory of constraints
• Theory of the firm
• Theory Theory
• Theory X and Theory Y
• Theory Z
• Think tank
• Thomas, Kenneth
• Three Levels of Leadership
• Time and motion study
• Tombstone mentality
• Total Quality Management
• Totalitarianism
• Tough-guy macho culture
• Town meeting
• Toxic leader
• Toxic workplace
• Toynbee, Arnold J
• Toyota Production System
• Traditional domination
• Trained incapacity
• Trait ascription bias
• Trait-based theories of leadership
• Transactional leadership
• Transatlantic Policy Consortium
• Transformational leadership
• Transpersonal business studies
• Transpersonal psychology
• Triarchy theory
• Tridimensional personality questionnaire
• Trompenaars' model of national cultural differences
• True self and false self
• Trust management
• Truthiness
• Turf war
• Turnover
• Twinkling fingers
• Two-step flow of communication
• Typical intellectual engagement
• Tyranny of the majority
• Uncertainty avoidance
• Unconscious cognition
• Unconscious thought theory
• Un-everyday-ness
• University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
• Unschooling
• Up or out
• Valence
• Varieties of Power (Montana and Charnov)
• Veblen, Thorstein
• Vicarious liability
• Victim playing
• Villard, Henry
• Vitality curve
• Voluntariness
• von Ranke, Leopold
• Vroom-Yetton contingency model
• War as a metaphor
• War's inefficiency puzzle
• Warren Harding Effect
• Weber, Max
• Weber's ideal types of political leadership
• Wedge issue
• Wharton School
• Whig history
• Whistleblower
• White Collar: The American Middle Classes
• Who Moved My Cheese?
• Whuffie
• The Wire
• Wisdom of the crowd
• Woodward, Joan
• Workers'council
• Work-hard, play-hard culture
• Workplace bullying
• Workplace democracy
• Workplace friendship
• Workplace gossip
• Workplace harassment
• Workplace listening
• Workplace politics
• Workplace wellness
• WYSE International
• Xeer
• Zedong, Mao
• Zero Defects