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The Leadership Experience, 9th Edition

Richard L. Daft

  • Copyright 2027
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The Leadership Experience 9th Edition by Richard L. Daft
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Leadership instructors more effective in the classroom with the text's diverse resources: real-life organizational applications of leadership concepts, new research on leadership behaviors and pedagogical features that facilitate teaching and learning. Give students the leadership skills and understanding of theory with Daft's "The Leadership Experience," 9th Edition. The text combines in-depth scholarly research with examples from leaders in real organizations and experiential exercises. Content includes leading agile, hybrid and remote work teams; establishing growth mindsets; encouraging mindfulness; embracing diversity, leading with love versus fear, moral awareness, optimism bias, leading with grit, a leader's responsibility to followers, creating a healthy culture and collective activism. Memorable examples and thoughts behind actual leadership decisions make topics come alive.

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Richard L. Daft

Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management Emeritus in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership and is a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management Education. He has been the associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 14 books and written dozens of scholarly articles, papers and chapters in academic books. A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Dr. Daft is one of today's most highly cited academics in the fields of economics and business.

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  • Six new book reviews in the Leader’s Bookshelf feature expand the knowledge for your leadership course.

Features

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  • LEADER’S BOOKSHELF REVIEWS MEANINGFUL BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY TODAY’S LEADERS THAT BUILD ON CHAPTER CONTENT. To help students continue their learning beyond the classroom, each chapter highlights a recent, highly recommended book that relates to the chapter’s content. These Leader’s Bookshelf features connect students to emerging issues and topics of importance that today’s leaders are researching and discussing in academia, business, the military or nonprofit organizations.
  • LEADER’S SELF-INSIGHT QUESTIONNAIRES ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO EXAMINE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP STYLES AND APPROACHES. Three brief and engaging questionnaires in each chapter encourage students to pause for a meaningful self-assessment of their personal abilities and aptitudes for leadership. Students experience today's leadership issues in a personal way as they complete the questionnaires, each of which is related to a specific concept in the chapter.
  • THINK ABOUT THIS! FEATURES PROVIDE MEMORABLE INSIGHTS INTO IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP TOPICS. These engaging feature boxes within each chapter prompt students to remember key points from chapter content. Think About This! boxes offer personal, compelling pieces of timeless wisdom or inspiring quotes from famous leaders.
  • APPLY YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILL: CASES FOR ANALYSIS GENERATE MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM DISCUSSION AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER. These 30 cases -- two at the conclusion of each chapter -- are updated to reflect contemporary leadership problem situations that present interesting challenges to students for class discussion or team assignments.

Table of Contents

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Part I: INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP.
1. What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?
Part II: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP.
2. Traits, Behaviors, and Relationships.
3. Contingency Approaches to Leadership.
Part III: THE PERSONAL SIDE OF LEADERSHIP.
4. The Leader as an Individual.
5. Leadership Head and Heart.
6. Courage and Moral Leadership.
7. Leadership Vision And Purpose.
Part IV: THE LEADER AS A RELATIONSHIP BUILDER.
8. Motivation and Empowerment.
9. Leadership Communication.
10. Leading Teams.
11. Leading Diversity and Inclusion.
12. Leadership Power and Influence.
Part V: THE LEADER AS A SOCIAL ARCHITECT.
13. Setting the Stage for Followership.
14. Shaping Culture and Values.
15. Leading Change.

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