Discovering Leadership
Designing Your Success
- Anthony Middlebrooks - University of Florida, FL, USA
- Scott J. Allen - John Carroll University, USA
- Mindy S. McNutt - Wright State University, USA
- James L. Morrison - University of Delaware, USA
Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success provides a practical, engaging foundation and easy-to-understand framework for individuals to purposefully design leadership. This action-oriented text starts with the self and helps students understand their individual strengths, styles, and skills through numerous reflection opportunities. Next, the text explores the relational aspects of leadership and best practices for motivating and inspiring followers. Finally, the text concludes by examining how leaders can transform their communities and create lasting, positive change. Practical applications and activities in each chapter help students develop their confidence, optimism, resiliency, and engagement. Regardless of your students’ background or major, they will gain the knowledge and skills they need to become thoughtful, impactful leaders.
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“One of the best leadership texts I have ever read. If students immerse themselves in the activities and discussions contained within, they will put this book down with understanding of how to motivate others to know, be, and do more.”
–Joshua H. Truitt, University of Central Florida
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“One of the best leadership texts I have ever read. If students immerse themselves in the activities and discussions contained within, they will put this book down with an understanding of how to motivate others to know, be, and do more.”
“Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Leadership Success represents an excellent first conversation and illustration of the catalyst intersection between design thinking and more traditional business management and leadership conversations. Students will benefit from the holistic five dimensional view of leadership, and faculty will be challenged to think beyond traditional boundaries of organizational management and effectiveness.”
“A comprehensive leadership development text based on principles of design thinking.”
“This book will help us better prepare out students for the internships and post-graduation placements we hope for.”
“The text is a phenomenal guide for using a design thinking process toward developing effective leaders that are desperately needed by our world.”
“Provides an opportunity for students to learn about themselves as leaders and how they can use their leadership skills to effectively lead others within an organization.”
“This is a text that lays a foundation from which the students can build their leadership knowledge and begin their personal leadership journey.”
A useful addition to the leadership practice. Some practical features with reflective questions to help improve leadership styles and make students and managers think about their leadership.
Though I attempted to have this text adopted, another was chosen due to "best-fit":
Theoharis, G., & Scanlan, M. (2015). Leadership for increasingly diverse schools. Routledge.
Nevertheless, I look forward to potentially adopting this text in the very near future!
Undergraduate course with 23 students. I liked the level of information and the focus on self-development of leadership skills