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NPL Book Club: The End of Leadership
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Join the Nonprofit Leadership Program to read and discuss The End of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman, available online via Penn Libraries. This is an informal space to learn, grow, and share. Open to all members of the Penn community interested in discussing leadership and followership in the modern era.
Book summary:
From one of the pioneers in the field of leadership studies comes a provocative reassessment of how people lead in the digital age: in The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman reveals a new way of thinking about leadership—and followership—in the twenty-first century. Building off of the strengths and insights of her work as a scholar and a teacher, Kellerman critically reexamines our most strongly-held assumptions about the role of leadership in driving success. Revealing which of our beliefs have become dangerously out-of-date thanks to advances in social media culture, she also calls into question the value of the so-called “leadership industry” itself. Asking whether leadership can truly be taught, Kellerman forces us to think critically and expansively about how to thrive as leaders in a global information age.