Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow

Ryszard Praszkier is a researcher at the University of Warsaw. He is the author or co-author of many publications, including Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2011). He has worked for over two decades for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an international association promoting social innovators. He has been a second-opinion reviewer for more than 100 candidates to Ashoka Fellowship on nearly all continents.

• Part I. Concept; Section 1. Leadership: 1. Traditional delineations of kinds of leadership; 2. Contemporary views on leadership; 3. Leadership and social influence; 4. Example: the specific social influence of social entrepreneurship; Section 2. Complexity and Networks: 5. Complexity: what does it mean?; 6. Something out of nothing: big social movements harnessing chaos into order; 7. Creativity: what it is and how it works; 8. Efficient networks; Section 3. Empowering Leadership: 9. Empowering leadership; 10. Preconditions for endogenous dynamics; Part II. Implementations; Section 4. Empowering Leadership in Action: 11. Empowering leadership in business; 12. Empowering leadership in social arena; Section 5. Being an Empowerer: 13. Some characteristics of an Empowerer; 14. How to enhance creativity; 15. Empowering as a lifestyle; Part III. Future; Section 6. How to Foresee the Future?: 16. Exploring the future; 17. Playing and dancing the future.

'Don't we all want to become better leaders? Ryszard Praszkier synthesizes an extraordinary amount of information on leadership, from theoretical perspectives to the work of great leaders from the business and social arena, and offers the reader practical steps on how to become an effective, creative and empowering leader.' Derek Brown, The Peace Appeal Foundation