Searching recommendations
For this part of your research, you should be able to find articles and books on leadership styles in Search@UW. Keep in mind that you don't need to read an entire book. If you look at the table of contents from a book, you most likely only need to read one chapter that will relate to your topic or sometimes even just reading the book introduction can meet your research needs.
If you aren't finding results that relate to your leadership style, navigate to the research help page of this guide to connect with a librarian who can help you with your research.
Example: Transformational Leadership
After doing an internet search for "Martin Luther King Jr." leadership style, I found that he was known as a transformational leader. I used the term "transformational leadership" in Search@UW and got these results. There were a range of books and articles on this leadership style.
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Keyword Tips
As you research your leadership style, you may find that your search results are specific to a certain discipline or maybe field. For example you might find articles discussing authoritative leadership in business or leadership in education. If your leader relates to a certain discipline, you might try adding that search term in too. So if your leader was a politician, you could add in the term "politics" to get results more specific to your chosen leader.
Recommended leadership books
Leadership: a Very Short Introduction by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2010In this Very Short Introduction Keith Grint prompts the reader to rethink their understanding of what leadership is. He examines the way leadership has evolved from its earliest manifestations in ancient societies, highlighting the beginnings of leadership writings through Plato, Sun Tzu,Machiavelli and others, to consider the role of the social, economic, and political context undermining particular modes of leadership.Exploring the idea that leaders cannot exist without followers, and recognising that we all have diverse experiences and assumptions of leadership, Grint looks at the practice of management, its history, future, and influence on all aspects of society.
Developing Leaders for Positive Organizing by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2017Developing Leaders for Positive Organizing examines this challenge by taking the reader on an investigative journey into everyday leadership as framed in the increasingly interconnected context of human relationships within and across organizations around the globe. This book offers broad appeal for the novice working practitioner; corporate, not-for-profit, or non-profit executive; experienced scholar or academic student.
