ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book focuses on the organizational leaders who have a primary or sole focus on employees. The best examples of organizational leaders who focus on execution and implementation are managers. Organizational leaders who focus on the policies that their employees execute and are empowered either to make exceptions or to recommend policy changes to legislative bodies are either management executives or political executives. Leadership also occurs outside organizational settings, relying primarily on paid employees. The book expresses that all those who lead others, no matter whether they are frontline supervisors or the heads of organizations, have leadership roles. It also focuses on leaders in public and nonprofit organizational settings. The book covers leadership development and evaluation. It presents the appendices that provide a leadership assessment instrument.
