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Author Rhode, Deborah L.

Title Lawyers as leaders / Deborah Rhode.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013
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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lawyers as leaders -- The nature of leadership -- Developing leadership -- Leadership capabilities -- Ethics in leadership -- Leadership scandals -- Diversity -- Law firms -- Social change -- Leaders' legacy.
Summary No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents have been lawyers. And yet almost no occupation rouses greater public distrust. This paradox raises two important questions: Why do we look to lawyers to lead, and why do so many of them prove to be so ill-prepared for that role? In Lawyers as Leaders, eminent law professor Deborah Rhode not only answ.
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Subject Lawyers -- United States -- Psychology.
Lawyers.
United States.
Psychology.
Leadership -- United States.
Leadership.
Leadership -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Psychological aspects.
Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Practice of law -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Practice of law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rhode, Deborah L. Lawyers as leaders. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199896226 (DLC) 2013011935 (OCoLC)830089527
ISBN 9780199896233 (electronic book)
0199896232 (electronic book)
1299712843 (e-book)
9781299712843 (e-book)
9780199896226
0199896224

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