Selected Readings - Leadership Development: Opportunities and Challenges
A Scan of the Leadership Literature and the Field of Leadership Development
Deborah Meehan
The report analyses a range of American leadersip development initiatives and attempts to group their capacity building approaches into major trends. The emphasis is on grassroots community leadership programmes, and on lessons from the field.
The report describes some well-known leadership theories and concepts, looks at the evolution of models for leadership development and offers a list of do's and don'ts for leadership development programmes.