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Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations

Written by: Michael A. Roberto, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Michael A. Roberto
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Discover an essential handbook for strategies, concepts, and insights into the dynamics of transformational leadership in these 24 lectures, which take you on an in-depth examination of the leadership behaviors and capabilities essential to creating positive change in teams and organizations. Filled with case studies and lessons from leaders in business, politics, sports, and the military, as well as a range of specific skills and strategies you can put to use in your own career, this lecture series is an authoritative guide to successful leadership.

You'll learn why, unlike management, which focuses on achieving consistent and reliable results, transformational leadership focuses on producing change - sometimes very substantial or even radical change. After an introductory lecture on the definitions of effective, transformational leadership, you dive right into the nuts and bolts of this important professional skill. In order to make the subject well organized and easily accessible, Professor Roberto has arranged Transformational Leadership into four key modules, each of which offers a focused look at a particular aspect of leadership: models of leadership (which surveys critical issues such as human behavior and long-term goals); the change process (which focuses on resistance to change as well as ways to institutionalize it); critical skills and capabilities (including motivation, persuasion, negotiation, and teamwork); and creativity, innovation and learning (which is devoted to everything from after-action reviews to systems thinking to mentoring).

Taken together, Professor Roberto's lectures are a stirring call to responsible leadership and a learning experience that's as informative as it is inspiring.

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leadership is more than collaboration that individual effort. This course highlights all the areas which leaders need to consider in order to be truly effective and transformational.

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excellent look into some great business stories

the irony is the sage on the stage is talked about badly in the very last chapter however this overview of business leadership does an excellent job of keeping a good pace while providing a great time listening and a lot of good interesting business anticdotes

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One-dimensional

I am listening to the 10th lecture and have noted the FIRST instance of a female leader used as an example. in this chapter, which addresses the emotional articulation of change, the prof mentions a female primary school teacher and the head of ready-to-wear fashion at Target. Until this point, one would be forgiven for thinking they only mean work and lead in corporate environments, or conduct scholarship on business. I don't have much faith that this aspect of the course will improve.

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