Rhode's voice is eloquent, authoritative, balanced, and infused with a dedication to community service. Throughout Lawyers as Leaders, Rhode's extensive experience is evident in the wisdom of her comments.

James G. Durham, Law Library Journal

No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than law. They obviously lead law firms, but they also sit at the helm of a vast and diverse array of businesses across America, including 10 percent of S & P 500 firms. And of course, a strikingly large percentage of our political leaders are attorneys, including half the members of Congress. This raises two obvious questions: why do we look to lawyers to lead, and why do so many of them prove to be so untrustworthy and unprepared? In Lawyers as Leaders, eminent law professor Deborah Rhode not only answers these questions but crafts an essential manual for attorneys who need to develop better leadership skills. She contends that the legal profession attracts a large number of individuals with the ambition and analytic capabilities to be leaders, but often fails to develop other qualities that are essential to their effectiveness. The focus of legal education and the reward structure of legal practice undervalue the interpersonal skills and ethical commitments necessary for successful leadership. Although some lawyers are sufficiently gifted to need little reinforcement, Rhode shows that the vast majority of law school graduates need to develop the leadership characteristics that she profiles. They know it too. According to one survey, almost 90 percent of attorneys stated that their law schools did not teach them leadership skills. Given the importance of the topic, it is surprising how little the profession has done to develop leadership skills. The first serious treatment of the subject, Lawyers as Leaders will be essential to law school instructors who teach leadership courses (a growing field) and any attorney who finds him or herself in a management position.
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Why do we look to lawyers to lead, and why do so many of them prove to be so untrustworthy and unprepared? In Lawyers as Leaders, eminent law professor Deborah Rhode not only answers these questions but crafts an essential manual for attorneys who need to develop better leadership skills.
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1. Lawyers as Leaders ; 2. The Nature of Leadership ; 3. Developing Leadership ; 4. Leadership Capabilities ; 5. Ethics in Leadership ; 6. Leadership Scandals ; 7. Diversity ; 8. Law Firms ; 9. Social Change ; 10. Leaders' Legacy
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Rhode's voice is eloquent, authoritative, balanced, and infused with a dedication to community service. Throughout Lawyers as Leaders, Rhode's extensive experience is evident in the wisdom of her comments.
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"While the findings of social science can often seem cold and lifeless on the page, Professor Rhode manages to present them vividly: in every paragraph, in nearly every sentence, she offers telling examples or memorable quotations coloring the portrait of the successful leader and the failed one, too." --Law and Politics Book Review "Rhode's voice is eloquent, authoritative, balanced, and infused with a dedication to community service. Throughout Lawyers as Leaders, Rhode's extensive experience is evident in the wisdom of her comments." -James G. Durham, Deputy Director, Maryland State Law Library, Law Library Journal
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Selling point: Although there are seven hundred college leadership programs and leadership consulting is a $45 billion industry, this is the first serious book on this subject Selling point: A rigorously empirical study from a law professor of impeccable reputation and gravitas
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Deborah Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Her books include The Beauty Bias: (OUP 2011), Access to Justice (OUP 2005), and In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession (OUP 2003).
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Selling point: Although there are seven hundred college leadership programs and leadership consulting is a $45 billion industry, this is the first serious book on this subject Selling point: A rigorously empirical study from a law professor of impeccable reputation and gravitas
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ISBN
9780199896226
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

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Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, the director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and the director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. She is the founding president of the International Association of Legal Ethics, the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, the former founding director of Stanford's Center on Ethics, a former trustee of Yale University, and the former director of Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender.