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BARBARA KELLERMAN
James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership

Expert on LEADERSHIP and FOLLOWERSHIP

- Winner, Wilbur M. McFeely Award, National Management Association, 2010 for "outstanding contributions" to the fields of leadership and management

- Ranked by Forbes.com as among "Top 50 Business Thinkers" 2009

- Ranked by Leadership Excellence as in Top 15 "Best Minds on Leadership" 2008-2009

Barbara Kellerman's Latest Book!

The End of Leadership
(Harper Business, 2012)

Becoming a leader has become a mantra. The explosive growth of the “leadership industry" is based on the belief that leading is a path to power and money, a medium for achievement, and a mechanism for creating change. But there are other, parallel, truths: that leaders of every stripe are in disrepute; that the tireless and often superficial teaching of leadership has brought us no closer to nirvana; and that followers nearly everywhere have become, on the one hand, disappointed and disillusioned and, on the other, entitled and emboldened. The End of Leadership takes on this unsettling situation.

Barbara Kellerman's Most Recent Books

Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence
(Editor, McGraw-Hill, 2010)

Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders
(Harvard Business School Press, 2008)

Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change
(Co-editor with Deborah L. Rhode, Jossey-Bass, 2007)

Bad Leadership: What it is, How it happens, Why it matters
(Harvard Business School Press, 2004)

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