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Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference (3rd ed.) Susan R. Komives, Nance Lucas, and Timothy R. McMahon San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013, 578 pages, $54.00 (softcover)
The 2013 edition of Exploring Leadership for College Students Who Want to Make a Difference features new material organized in a way that helps readers make meaning of the content and apply it to their own experiences. The text incorporates modern notions of leadership as a relational process and introduces the Relational Leadership Model (Komives, Lucas, & McMahon, 1998, 2006, 2013), explaining leadership as purposive, inclusive, empowering, ethical, and processoriented. This model serves as a framework throughout the book, and is expanded upon with human and organizational development concepts to help students better understand themselves, the diversity around them, and their engagement with their communities.
As with previous editions, the text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students engaged in leadership development experiences on college campuses. The text includes summary overviews, activities, reflection questions, and additional reading suggestions that help students apply concepts, as well as assist faculty and staffwith curriculum planning and program development. This edition includes better charts and figures, which provide helpful visual representation of key models, theories, and concepts. Of particular interest are the new vignettes called "Student Essays," where students share their thoughts and advice.
With the accessible language and userfriendly organization readers have come to appreciate about previous editions, the revised edition of Exploring Leadership features a more streamlined and condensed 12-chapter arrangement organized into 4 parts. The first part of the book remains similar to previous editions. The authors discuss leadership as a process and the importance of leadership learning and development. The Changing Nature of Leadership chapter provides context, examining models and theories of leadership historically, culminating in the modern notion of relational...