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4 pages in length. Gayle C. Avery's book entitled Understanding Leadership effectively whittles an otherwise overwhelming field of leadership methods down to a manageable four comprehensive paradigms in which to separate and define the hundreds of leadership options available in today's organizational environment. Presented in an easy to understand format, anyone from corporate start-up to CEO can grasp the value of what resides within these 328 pages. No additional sources cited.
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options available in todays organizational environment. Presented in an easy to understand format, anyone from start-up students to near-graduates can grasp the value of what resides within these 328
pages. Averys (2004) major themes include much-needed evaluation of past, present and future leadership methods in order to determine if what has been applied before has any positive influence upon
what transpires now. Moreover, will the approaches used in todays organizational environment be apropos for the ever-changing concept of leadership? Given the fact that leadership theories of decades
gone by focused most predominantly upon a heavy-handed, gender-directed approach, it stands to reason why Avery (2004) finds it important to question such archaic methods when teaching contemporary business students.
Determining what it takes to become a good leader - receptively influential, compassionate, communicative, dynamic - has long been up for debate between/among
those who support various theories. One of the most examined theories, which calls upon the inherent - and perhaps even genetic - aspects of leadership qualification, is the Great
Man theory. Relying upon a patriarchal disposition, Avery (2004) points out that as the name implies, the Great Man theory is replete with gender bias, basing its entire concept
upon the notion that the only viable candidate for leadership of any kind is - and has always been - male. Clearly, this mentality may have been popular decades
ago prior to the feminist movement and organic approaches to leadership, inasmuch as contemporary society houses myriad female supervisors at every corporate level who have proven their collective capacity for
exhibiting effective leadership - even and because of the greater tendency for nurturing and compassion innate to the female gender so often accused of being absent in their male counterparts.
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