Good info, boring as hell.

This is definitely a textbook on leadership, but it's extremely readable and applicable to the study of leadership, even if you're a practitioner and not a researcher. I love the case studies and self-tests.

Not terrible as textbooks go. Chapters deal rather generally with leadership theories; defining them, presenting research findings, detailing strengths, weaknesses, and applications of each approach, three case studies pertaining to the approach, sample questionnaires, and a summary. The last few chapters deal with issues in leadership regarding culture, gender, and others. All in all, its a good overview of leadership theories.

This book gives a good overview of many leadership theories and how they work in real life. There is also a discussion on ethics in leadership, culture and leadership and gender and leadership.

Comprehensive, abundant in explanation, with tools to test each theory. I really liked the summaries and strengths and weaknesses for each theory. Even if the Ethics chapter is a little repetitive, with examples from previous chapters, and the chapters about gender and cultural differences are not exhaustive and sometimes debatable, I really liked reading this book.

A great textbook for an introduction to leadership theory class. It is very readable and includes charts, tables, and an assessment at the end of each chapter. We used it in my graduate leadership class and one that I will reference in the years to come and future papers.

This was a textbook for a class I’m taking on ethics and leadership. It takes concepts around leadership, which can tend to sound like a lot of business buzzwords, and puts them into academic frameworks that can be studied and put into practice. It’s helped me organize my thoughts on leadership and challenged some of my ideas about what it means to be a servant leader. Prior to this course and reading this book, I took all of the conflicting leadership advice as a “well, it’s all the same”; now, I can more fully appreciate these kinds of advice. I recommend this book for everyone: teachers, consultants, engineers, parents. It’s definitely helped me understand this abstract idea that is leadership.

This does what it should--outlines various leadership theories and practices. It's pretty read-able, and the standard format means that you're getting the same info from chapter to chapter. That fact also means it gets tiring reading from beginning to end, but used as a reference it's probably better. A few gender-related concerns came up during discussion of the book, so it'll be interesting to go back and catch some more, and perhaps alert the author to them for his next edition. (Especially important given his chapter on women & leadership.)

Insightful, balanced, and well researched.

I loved this book as a general reference to guide me through leadership theory. Would highly recommend as a signpost for anyone curious about leadership theory. It is fairly academic, but it remains succinct.

This was for DNP/NNP year 1 semester 1.

I read the the first half of the 9th edition of this book for school, and I'm definitely shameless enough to still mark the book as "read" (I actually payed more than 1000 NOK for this book, so I think I deserve the little endorphin rush I get from marking it as read)