Title: Organisational Leadership and Power
Introduction
I’m going to be honest: when I first picked up Organizational Leadership and Power, I was expecting something dry and theory-heavy like a lot of management textbooks. I was wrong. Udai Pareek not only talks about leadership in an abstract way but goes all out to break down the psychology of power, influence, and motivation in an incredibly relevant way today.
The book looks seriously into how leadership operates in actual organizations, not only the elegant ‘visionary leader’ illusion propagated but the practical dynamics of power in workplaces. Pareek covers leadership styles, decision-making, motivation, and, most importantly, how power comes to be in organizational forms. And let’s face it – power is something we do not usually discuss when talking about leadership, despite being at the core of so much that happens in a workplace.
One more thing that got me about this book is its...
