Business Leadership contains the best thinking from the biggest names in leadership on a wide range of subjects including ethics, dealing with change, vision setting, the heroic journey, the practices of leadership, and the work of leadership. With an introduction by James M. Kouzes-- coauthor of the million-copy best-seller The Leadership Challenge-- the author list of this invaluable resource reads like the who's who of business leadership. This extraordinary collection features chapters from Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Warren Bennis, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Lee G. Bolman, Larry Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Susan Mitchell Bridges, William Bridges, Marcus Buckingham, Ram Charan, Joanne B. Ciulla, Donald O. Clifton, James C. Collins, Terrence E. Deal, Max De Pree, Stephen Drotter, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman, Robert K. Greenleaf, Victoria A. Guthrie, Gary Hamel, David A. Heenan, Ronald A. Heifetz, Paul Hersey, Frances Hesselbein, John P. Kotter, James M. Kouzes, Donald L. Laurie, Morgan W. McCall Jr., Annie McKee, Burt Nanus, James Noel, James O'Toole, Jerry I. Porras, Barry Z. Posner, Robert E. Quinn, Edgar H. Schein, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Noel M. Tichy, Ellen Van Velsor, and Margaret J. Wheatley.
Joan V. Gallos is an award-winning educator, author, and scholar in the field of leadership and management education and a consultant who has engaged in leadership development and organizational start-up and change projects for private and public organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Visit her website at www.joangallos.com
Gallos is currently professor of leadership, University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor, and director of the Executive MBA Program at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, where she has also served as dean and professor of leadership at the School of Education, coordinator of university accreditation, special assistant to the chancellor for strategic planning, and director of the Higher Education Graduate Program.
Gallos holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in English from Princeton and master's and doctoral degrees in organizational behavior and professional education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Her scholarship centers on innovative leadership and management pedagogy for a diverse work world; expanding conceptions of what, how and why professionals learn; and individual and organizational change.
Gallos, the former editor of the Journal of Management Education, has published four books with two others in development; more than fifty articles and chapters; and multiple sets of curricular and management training materials (including all the instructional materials for the Jossey-Bass Reader series in management). She has co-written and produced a play on teen health and wellness, drafted a children's reader, and is at work on her first novel.
Gallos has received numerous awards for her teaching, scholarship, leadership, and service. She has been named an Icon of Education by Ingram's Magazine, and a Sage of the Society by a vote of her international colleagues for lifetime contributions to management education. In 2008, she was named University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor, the highest faculty rank awarded by the University system.
Gallos is also proud to have received the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for the best article on management education in 1990(and to have been finalist for the same prize in subsequent years). In 1993, she accepted the Radcliffe College/Harvard University Excellence in Teaching award.
In 2002-03, Joan Gallos served as founding director of the Truman Center for the Healing Arts at Truman Medical Center, Kansas City's public safety-net, teaching hospital. As a result of her leadership, the Center received the 2004 Kansas City Business Committee for the Arts Partnership Award for the best partnership between a large organization and the arts.
