Leaders Assemble! Leadership in the MCU
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- ISBN 9781801176736
- Weight: 193g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In this volume of Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture, Schmidt and Islam examine how you can learn about research and evidence-based leadership concepts through examples drawn from the popular MCU movies and related superhero films.
Leaders Assemble! Leadership in the MCU includes sound research and evidence-based advice on how to improve as a leader on topics such as leadership development, conflict management, mentorship, sensemaking, shared leadership, servant leadership, authentic leadership, servant leadership, and selecting your team. Examples from your favorite MCU films make these concepts come alive so you can easily see how they can be used to improve your own leadership skills.
Each chapter focuses on a core leadership concept and shows you how you can use it to be a successful leader, with MCU films and superheroes leading the way with relevant examples, before finally summarizing the main points you can use in your own leadership practice.
Gordon B. Schmidt, PhD, is a Professor of Management at the University of Louisiana Monroe. He researches the Future of Work, leadership and/or motivation in varied contexts including lean production and Corporate Social Responsibility and consults with organizations on these topics.
Sy Islam is a Co-Founder and Vice President of Consulting with Talent Metrics and an Associate Professor of Industrial Organizational psychology at Farmingdale State College. Dr. Islam won the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology's Scientist-Practitioner Presidential Recognition Award for his focus on science driven practices in training and talent development and the Farmingdale State College Center for Technology, Learning, and Teaching’s Faculty Mentorship award.
