The AMA Handbook of Leadership features insights from best-of-the-best thought leaders and executive leadership coaches on topics from talent development, the arts and leadership, and competitive advantage through leadership, to leading across cultures, sustainability, executive transition, and many more timeless (and timely) issues.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by James M. Kouzes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• PART ONE Forging Ahead: The Global Picture
• 1 Diversity: The Imperative for Today's Leaders - Frances Hesselbein
• 2 Leadership and Diversity Management: Unfinished Business - R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.
• 3 360 for Global Leaders: Coaching Through a World Lens - Maya Hu-Chan
• 4 Asian and Western Executive Styles - D. Quinn Mills and Luke Novelli, Jr.
• PART TWO Developing People: The Key to the Future
• 5 Passing the Baton: Developing Your Successor - Marshall Goldsmith
• 6 Developing Exceptional Leaders: Critical Success Factors - James F. Bolt
• 7 The Leader's Role in Growing New Leaders - Beverly Kaye
• 8 Talent Pool or Talent Puddle: Where's the Talent in Talent Management? - Marc Effron and Miriam Ort
• 9 The Cost of Investing in People Leadership Negatively Affects the Bottom Line: Fact or Fiction? - Howard J. Morgan and Paula Kruger
• PART THREE Engaging People: The Force of Change
• 10 Leadership's Silver Bullet: The Magic of Inspiration - John H. (Jack) Zenger
• 11 Create Awareness; Create Change - Judith M. Bardwick
• 12 I Really Do Care! - Joseph Folkman
• 13 The Real Legacy of Leadership: Aligning Rhetoric with Reality - Albert A. Vicere
• 14 What Do Leaders Need to Know About Generation Y in Order to Lead Successfully? - Paul Hersey
• PART FOUR Facilitating Change: The Leader's Role
• 15 What Is an Effective Leader? The Leadership Code and Leadership Brand - Norm Smallwood and Dave Ulrich
• 16 Leading the Emotional Side of Change: The New 21st-Century Leadership Capability - Robert H. Rosen
• 17 Adjusting the Political Temperature of Your Team - Gary Ranker and Colin Gautrey
• 18 Making Successful Transitions: The Leader's Perspective - Patricia Wheeler
• 19 A Question of Leadership: What Does the Organization Need Me to Do? - John Baldoni
• PART FIVE Taking the Lead: The X Factors
• 20 Situational Intelligence - Laurence S. Lyons
• 21 The Arts and Leadership - Nancy J. Adler
• 22 Client Leadership: Leading in the Marketplace - Andrew Sobel
• 23 Leading for Sustainability - Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams