Book Review: "Understanding Leadership" By Gayle C. Avery

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4 pages in length. Like so many other broadly defined words in the English language, the term leadership has such an expansive connotation that many people do not have a firm grasp of its meaning. Gayle C. Avery's Understanding Leadership helps to alleviate both the ambiguity and confusion so often attributed to the word by applying the overall theme of compilation: Condensing the dozens upon dozens of leadership theories into four specific paradigms in order to provide a solid basis upon which they can all be categorized: classical, transactional, visionary and organic. No additional sources cited.