"Leadership practitioners and those who seek to develop leadership are concerned with whether they are using evidence-based best practices to develop leadership capacity in themselves and others. Are we indeed using best practices in the study, practice, and development of leadership? This book seeks to draw attention to the limitations of extant work on leadership, and to provide suggestions for a way forward. Presenting chapters on topics ranging from research methodology, gender and cross-cultural issues in leadership studies, and the role of the humanities in our understanding of leadership, the book represents a rigorous multidisciplinary collaboration."--Provided by publisher

Leadership research methods : progressing back to process -- Leadership and levels of analysis : clarifications and fixes for what's wrong -- Leadership assessment can be better : directions for selection and performance management -- Self-selection bias in leadership : understanding reluctant leaders -- Leadership and ethics : you can run, but you cannot hide from the humanities -- Leadership is male-centric : gender issues in the study of leadership -- Are leadership theories Western-centric? transcending cognitive differences between the East and the West -- Leadership and the medium of time -- Leaders are complex : expanding our understanding of leader identity -- Turning a blind eye to destructive leadership : the forgotten destructive leaders -- Leadership development starts earlier than we think : capturing the capacity of new leaders to address the leader talent shortage -- What Is wrong with leadership development and what might be done about it's -- Solving the problem with leadership training : aligning contemporary behavior-based training with mindset conditioning -- Critical leadership studies : exploring the dialectics of leadership -- Leadership for what?

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