Books
ILA’s book series offer fresh thinking on leadership from a diverse range of leaders, scholars, educators, and leadership professionals working around the globe. They support ILA’s purpose to connect people worldwide to advance the practice and study of leadership for a just and thriving future.
Current series include Building Leadership Bridges and Transformative Women Leaders, both published by Emerald Publishing. Past series include Women & Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice, published by InfoAge and the original BLB series published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
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Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions
Despite the images and expectations imposed on their bodies, women are increasingly claiming their bodies as their own through embodied somatic leadership, in protesting injustice, in promoting peace, and in working in a so-called “man’s world.”
Genderwashing in Leadership: Power, Policies, and Politics
This book considers how genderwashing – the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace – highlights hidden biases in organizational policies and procedures. The authors and editors host a space for dialogue and debate as they explore different aspects of genderwashing and how to transform today’s organizations.
Questioning Leadership
Leaders ask hard questions that spark creative solutions and new understandings. Asking by itself isn’t enough – leaders must also help find answers and turn them into effective action.
The Gift of Transformative Leaders
Through the stories of thirteen transformative leaders, Hatch illuminates how the author approached identifying talent and empowered leaders to lead in bold and creative ways.
Inclusive Leadership: Equity and Belonging in Our Communities
This book serves as a guide to what it means and looks like to be an ally and advocate for DEIB. Divided into four sections—(a) Understanding DEIB, (b) DEIB and Education, (c) The Application and Practice DEIB/Accessibility, and (d) DEIB/Accessibility: A Community and Global Perspective— the book offers readers a roadmap toward fostering inclusivity and fairness.
The Hazards of Great Leadership
A leader can become a hazard through social psychological processes, which operate through the metaphor of Seven Deadly Sins, to create negative consequences. Great leaders can undermine their own success and accomplishments, as well as their followers.
Leading For Innovation
Creativity, the generation of novel and useful ideas, and innovation, the transformation of these ideas into new products, processes, and services, are both critical for the long-term viability, profitability, and growth of organizations.
There Is More Than One Way to Lead
The charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic (CIP) theory of leadership has emerged as a novel framework for thinking about the varying ways leaders can influence followers. The theory is based on the principle of equifinality, or the notion that there are multiple pathways to the same outcome.
A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer: For Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers
More than 30 activist-artist leaders discuss their work inspiring and creating the positive changes needed to meet the daunting problems facing people and planet.
The Study and Practice of Global Leadership
This book provides cutting-edge perspectives on the impact that globalization is having on the study and practice of Global Leadership.
Cultural Dynamics and Leadership
The intersection of leadership and culture is undertheorized. Of particular relevance is an interpretive approach, elaborated in the works of Simmel, Cassirer, Ortega y Gasset, and Gadamer.
Reimagining Leadership on the Commons
What does leadership in self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector look like? This book is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions
Despite the images and expectations imposed on their bodies, women are increasingly claiming their bodies as their own through embodied somatic leadership, in protesting injustice, in promoting peace, and in working in a so-called “man’s world.”
Genderwashing in Leadership: Power, Policies, and Politics
This book considers how genderwashing – the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace – highlights hidden biases in organizational policies and procedures. The authors and editors host a space for dialogue and debate as they explore different aspects of genderwashing and how to transform today’s organizations.
Questioning Leadership
Leaders ask hard questions that spark creative solutions and new understandings. Asking by itself isn’t enough – leaders must also help find answers and turn them into effective action.
The Gift of Transformative Leaders
Through the stories of thirteen transformative leaders, Hatch illuminates how the author approached identifying talent and empowered leaders to lead in bold and creative ways.
Inclusive Leadership: Equity and Belonging in Our Communities
This book serves as a guide to what it means and looks like to be an ally and advocate for DEIB. Divided into four sections—(a) Understanding DEIB, (b) DEIB and Education, (c) The Application and Practice DEIB/Accessibility, and (d) DEIB/Accessibility: A Community and Global Perspective— the book offers readers a roadmap toward fostering inclusivity and fairness.
The Hazards of Great Leadership
A leader can become a hazard through social psychological processes, which operate through the metaphor of Seven Deadly Sins, to create negative consequences. Great leaders can undermine their own success and accomplishments, as well as their followers.
Leading For Innovation
Creativity, the generation of novel and useful ideas, and innovation, the transformation of these ideas into new products, processes, and services, are both critical for the long-term viability, profitability, and growth of organizations.
There Is More Than One Way to Lead
The charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic (CIP) theory of leadership has emerged as a novel framework for thinking about the varying ways leaders can influence followers. The theory is based on the principle of equifinality, or the notion that there are multiple pathways to the same outcome.
A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer: For Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers
More than 30 activist-artist leaders discuss their work inspiring and creating the positive changes needed to meet the daunting problems facing people and planet.
The Study and Practice of Global Leadership
This book provides cutting-edge perspectives on the impact that globalization is having on the study and practice of Global Leadership.
Cultural Dynamics and Leadership
The intersection of leadership and culture is undertheorized. Of particular relevance is an interpretive approach, elaborated in the works of Simmel, Cassirer, Ortega y Gasset, and Gadamer.
Reimagining Leadership on the Commons
What does leadership in self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector look like? This book is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
