How Managers Have Learnt to Lead: Exploring the Development of Leadership Practice

An insight into the 'black-box' of leadership learning that acts as a companion to guide leadership development. It has been written to enable the reader to reflect on their own experience and critique this against four case profiles of leadership learning: the public and private sectors; women managers; and owner-managers.

STEVE KEMPSTER is Professor of Leadership and Head of the School of Business and Enterprise at Cumbria University, UK. Previously Steve was at Lancaster University Management School where he was Director of the Management Development and Project Management Divisions, Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre and Director of the Full-time MBA. Recently Steve was Executive Director of the Northern Leadership Academy.