Leaders rather than bosses
A recently published book analyses leadership and provides tips on how to achieve it
“Leadership is a collective, collaborative and altruistic process. It is a widespread phenomenon entailing several leaders, not just one boss, within a workplace”. This is the notion that leads to success in most different spheres, including the corporate one. leadership, which is not about a single person in charge, but something more complex and intense. as well as intriguing. And is leadership, in its many shapes, that Gianluca Giansante discusses in his recently published Leadership. Teorie, tecniche, buone pratiche e falsi miti (Leadership. Theories, techniques, good practice and misconceptions).
The book’s underlying concept is as described above: true leadership is a collective activity. Starting with this assumption, Giansante embarks on a path based upon various sources of information and composed of various stages, which ends up constituting a kind of “leadership guidebook” aimed at people whose role is to run a company. a guidebook that also provides concrete advice on how to behave and what to avoid. Thus, readers learn about the key features that make a leader, how leaders conceive what they do and why, the importance of sharing and emotions, cooperation and agreement, reasons for acting and the relationship between leaders and power, as well as the risks that a leader might face. All explained in a clear language and through answers and questions that may seem obvious but are far from being so. as well as through the narration of experiences by Gandhi, Malala Yousafzai, Marco Aurelio, Winston Churchill and many others.
In his conclusions, Giansante writes: “Leaders are not on their own, they belong to a group and their main duty is not to boss people around but to motivate them towards collaboration as a shared objective.”
Leadership. Teorie, tecniche, buone pratiche e falsi miti (Leadership. Theories, techniques, good practice and misconceptions)
Gianluca Giansante
Carocci editore, 2023
A recently published book analyses leadership and provides tips on how to achieve it
“Leadership is a collective, collaborative and altruistic process. It is a widespread phenomenon entailing several leaders, not just one boss, within a workplace”. This is the notion that leads to success in most different spheres, including the corporate one. leadership, which is not about a single person in charge, but something more complex and intense. as well as intriguing. And is leadership, in its many shapes, that Gianluca Giansante discusses in his recently published Leadership. Teorie, tecniche, buone pratiche e falsi miti (Leadership. Theories, techniques, good practice and misconceptions).
The book’s underlying concept is as described above: true leadership is a collective activity. Starting with this assumption, Giansante embarks on a path based upon various sources of information and composed of various stages, which ends up constituting a kind of “leadership guidebook” aimed at people whose role is to run a company. a guidebook that also provides concrete advice on how to behave and what to avoid. Thus, readers learn about the key features that make a leader, how leaders conceive what they do and why, the importance of sharing and emotions, cooperation and agreement, reasons for acting and the relationship between leaders and power, as well as the risks that a leader might face. All explained in a clear language and through answers and questions that may seem obvious but are far from being so. as well as through the narration of experiences by Gandhi, Malala Yousafzai, Marco Aurelio, Winston Churchill and many others.
In his conclusions, Giansante writes: “Leaders are not on their own, they belong to a group and their main duty is not to boss people around but to motivate them towards collaboration as a shared objective.”
Leadership. Teorie, tecniche, buone pratiche e falsi miti (Leadership. Theories, techniques, good practice and misconceptions)
Gianluca Giansante
Carocci editore, 2023