Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow [Paperback]

This book shows how Empowering Leadership (EL) can drive success in business and have an immense social impact.This book proposes a kind of leadership that fosters bottom-up dynamics, empowering people, groups, teams, and societies. It examines the conceptual backbone and underlying mechanisms of Empowering Leadership (EL) for academics and students, and establishes practical guidelines for leadership development, including methods to enhance creativity.This book proposes a kind of leadership that fosters bottom-up dynamics, empowering people, groups, teams, and societies. It examines the conceptual backbone and underlying mechanisms of Empowering Leadership (EL) for academics and students, and establishes practical guidelines for leadership development, including methods to enhance creativity.Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow examines leadership that enables and empowers others to co-participate, co-create, and experience the joy of creativity. It proposes a kind of leadership that fosters bottom-up dynamics, empowering people, groups, teams, and societies. Praszkier shows how this approach, called Empowering Leadership (EL), can drive success in business and, in the case of social entrepreneurship, have an immense social impact. Furthermore, he shows that EL style is also beneficial in other fields, such as parenting and counseling. The book presents diverse case studies from business and social arenas, as well as from family life. It establishes practical guidelines for leadership development, including methods to enhance creativity, and also casts an eye toward the future, demonstrating approaches to navigating future scenarios in a complex and unpredictable environment.Part I. Concept; Section 1. Leadership: 1. Traditional delineations of kinds of leadership; 2. Contemporary views on leadership; 3. Leadership and social influence; 4. Example: the specific social influence of social entrepreneurship; Section 2. Complexity and Networks: 5. Complexity: what does iló&