Acknowledgements
This open textbook has been developed and partially adapted by Laura Radtke, in partnership with the OER Design Studio and the Library Learning Commons at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. This work is part of the FanshaweOpen learning initiative and is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted.
- Section 1.8 Katz’s Three Skills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License,
- Section 2.10 Developing Leadership Skills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License,
- Section 4.4 Vulnerability in leadership is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Attribution
This book is primarily an adaptation of the following two sources:
- Principles of Management by University of Minnesota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Principles of Management by Open Stax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except otherwise noted.
Additional Content was added from the following sources:
- Retail Management by Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, unless otherwise noted.
- Beginning Human Relations by Laura Portolese Dias is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License , except where otherwise noted.
- Boundless Management by Boundless is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Cultivating Your Leadership Capabilities by Granite State College is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. except where otherwise noted.
- Organizational Behaviour by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- NSCC Fundamentals of Business by NSCC, Pamplin College of Business and Virgina Tech Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Principles of Management by Lisa Jo Rudy and Lumen Learning is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Leadership and Management in Learning Organizations by Clayton Smith; Carson Babich; and Mark Lubrick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Leading Innovation by Kerri Shields is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
A list of changes from the previous sources can be found at Changes from Adapted Text.
Author’s Acknowledgements
I am extremely grateful to all those who have made post-secondary education more affordable for Fanshawe College’s Managing Leaders and Leadership students. There are many people who have contributed to this text, beginning with the dozen or so authors who started this journey with their own Open Educational Resources (OER), and who have generously shared their work at no cost to the rest of us. I am thankful that Fanshawe’s leaders have shown their dedication to unlocking potential in ALL their students by creating our own OER Design Studio to help remove financial barriers. The Studio consists of an amazing team providing tremendous patience, guidance, and assistance throughout the OER process. I am especially grateful to Shauna Roch for her unfailing support, especially when she was supposed to be on holiday; somehow, she is able to empower others with just the right mix of encouragement and motivation, and is an example of leadership at its finest! Many thanks to Jenn Ayers for doing a great job of stepping into a brand-new role and keeping this project on track. I am grateful to Tyler Pollard who poured extra hours into checking references and instructional design – thank you for your keen eye and thoughtful advice as we both took a stab at something totally new. Alyssa Giles did a fabulous job on the graphics and Davandra Earle created incredible PowerPoint slides – I sincerely appreciate the difference their talents have made to this book. Melanie Mitchell Sparkes, Robert Armstrong and Wilson Poulter have made significant contributions of instructional design, graphics, and source-checking – thank you! I am grateful to the dean of my department, Mary Pierce, who provided me with time and encouragement to make this OER possible. A huge thank you to my husband and family for their constant support and encouragement to pursue my goals.
Finally, I am extremely grateful for the students who show up, eager to learn, share, reflect, work and grow into the best leaders they can be – both personally and professionally. You are an inspiration to me every day, and I look forward to your contributions to this textbook as we go forward together. To all those who read this book, I am grateful you are taking the time to reflect on how you influence and lead those around you every day, and hope it will help you lift and empower you and those you associate with. Thank you in advance for your comments and suggestions as to how improve the content going forward.
Laura Radtke, BSc (Hons), MA
Professor, Fanshawe College
Collaborators
This project was a collaboration between the author and the team in the OER Design Studio at Fanshawe. The following staff and students were involved in the creation of this project:
- Tyler Pollard – Instructional Design
- Melanie Mitchell Sparkes – Instructional Design Student
- Alyssa Giles – Graphic Design Student
- Robert Armstrong – Graphic Design
- Davandra Earle – Ancillary Specialist
- Jennifer Ayers – Project Management
- Shauna Roch – Project Lead & Quality Assurance
- Wilson Poulter – Copyright
