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Leadership

No More Heroes

Palgrave Macmillan
  • This new edition shows how leadership has to change over time, describing how the most highly rated leaders achieve their goals
  • Provides a guide to the territory of leadership and its three domains: the strategic, the operational and the interpersonal
  • Describes the tasks leaders have to achieve and explains the psychology of leadership based in personality
  • Elucidates the neuroscience of leadership to enhance understanding of leadership’s foundations

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. The History of Thinking About Leadership

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 1-32
  3. Leadership’s Impact on the Performance of Organisations

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 33-51
  4. The Primary Colours of Leadership

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 53-77
  5. What Do Highly Rated Leaders Do?

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 79-92
  6. Five Enablers of Leading

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 93-106
  7. The Improbability of Being a Complete Leader

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 107-131
  8. Building a Leadership Team

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 133-154
  9. Do You have to be Smart to be a Leader?

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 155-171
  10. The Impact of Personality on Leadership

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 173-189
  11. When It All Goes Wrong: Leaders Who Fail and Derail

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 191-208
  12. A Programme of Action

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages 209-224
  13. Correction to: Leadership: No More Heroes

    • David Pendleton, Adrian F. Furnham, Jonathan Cowell
    Pages C1-C1
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 225-240

About this book

Leadership is most needed in times of change, uncertainty and crisis.  We are living through those times. 

To support leaders in all spheres, this book provides a guide to the territory of leadership and its three domains: the strategic (head), the operational (hands) and the interpersonal (heart).  It describes the tasks leaders have to achieve and explains the psychology of leadership based in personality.  It argues strongly that complete leadership is the province of diverse teams of leaders made up of complementary differences.

And now the best has just got better.  The new edition shows how leadership has to change over time, describes how the most highly rated leaders achieve their goals and also elucidates the neuroscience of leadership to enhance understanding of leadership’s foundations.

Pendleton, Furnham and Cowell’s work is a powerful combination of the best research on the psychology of leadership and years of iteration and practical implementation in the field – working with thousands of leaders from all walks of life and learning from their successes and challenges.

There is no one secret recipe for success as a leader.

What this book provides is a framework to enable you to achieve success in your own way.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Henley Business School, Reading University, UK

    David Pendleton

  • Norwegian Business School, London, UK

    Adrian F. Furnham

  • Edgecumbe Consulting, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Cowell

About the authors

David Pendleton is Professor in Leadership at Henley Business School, and a member of the Henley Centre for Leadership.  He co-founded the Edgecumbe consulting group in 1995 where he worked with a wide range of clients from the airline, hospitality, retail, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and professional and financial services sectors in Europe, Asia and America. He was Executive Chair of Edgecumbe from 1995-2005.  The holder of an Oxford doctorate in Psychology, David is a Chartered Psychologist an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a member of their Trustee Board.

Adrian Furnham was educated at the LSE where he obtained a distinction in an MSc Econ., and at Oxford where he completed a doctorate (D.Phil) in 1981. He has subsequently earned a D.Sc (1991) and D.Litt (1995) degree. Previously a lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford, he was Professor of Psychology at University College London from 1992 to 2018 He  is now Adjunct Professor of Management at the Norwegian School of Management (2009) as well as Principal Psychologist at Stamford Associates. He has written over 1300 scientific papers and 95 books. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals, and a founder director of Applied Behavioural Research Associates (ABRA), a psychological consultancy established 30 years ago.

Jon Cowell is a leadership researcher, writer, teacher, consultant and practitioner. As an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford he works as a programme leader, tutor, action learning set facilitator and coach to help leaders from all over the world to lead better; his main research interests are in the leadership of Major Projects and the feminisation of leadership. As CEO of Edgecumbe Consulting Group he strives to create an environment in which its people can thrive.  With Edgecumbe’s clients he assesses, coaches and develops leadership capability, working with individual leaders, senior teams and whole organisations. 

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eBook USD 34.99
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 44.99
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