Leadership for Transformation
A Volume in the ILA Building Leadership Bridges (BLB) Series

Call for Submissions (Deadline December 1, 2009)

Gill Hickman and JoAnn Barbour, Editors 

The International Leadership Association invites you to submit your work on the theme, Leadership for Transformation for our annual volume in the Building Leadership Bridges series. The book captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership today from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the book series connects ways of studying, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world. The book will be published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley with an expected publication date of November 2010.

Background/Rationale

The theme Leadership for Transformation encompasses transformation at all levels whether individual, institutional, organizational, disciplinary, cultural, governmental, or global. Transformation is the result of many acts, both large and small, carried out by various groups and individuals in classrooms or boardrooms, town halls or the halls of government, the factory floor or the office cubicle, the street or the home. This volume is an opportunity to share and learn about new research, effective leadership practices, proven teaching methods, and creative works that support any of the many faces of transformation.

The theme of this volume builds on that of our 2009 annual conference. Convening this year’s global conversation in Prague allows us to honor, study, and be inspired by the twentieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution—a six-week series of non-violent demonstrations that overthrew the Communist government at the end of 1989. It was Albert Einstein who wisely observed, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” The Velvet Revolution, along with events like the end of Apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, provide opportunities to explore the types of leadership that can lead to transformation on a global scale. Please note that one does not need to attend or present at the conference to submit to this volume.

Questions for Stimulation

The editors of this volume offer a set of guiding questions to stimulate your thinking about Leadership for Transformation. What forms of leadership best serve the transformation of communities, countries, or transnational societies? What does the development of global leadership mean and look like in the 21st century? What roles have youth and artists/cultural workers played in leading transformation? How can collaborations be constructed across institutions, disciplines and sectors toward leadership for transformation? Are there case studies—exemplary narratives—that can illuminate the gifts and challenges of leadership for transformation? What research has been done that provides applicable theories, frameworks, or assessments of historic cultural transformations? What teaching methods, curriculum, and approaches can be used to develop leadership processes and leaders that support transformation?

Areas for Submission

The editors welcome previously unpublished submissions that explore Leadership for Transformation from diverse perspectives, disciplines, cultures, and sectors. Submissions are encouraged that strengthen ties between those who practice and those who study leadership, and that foster effective and ethical leadership. Submissions will be considered in three areas that help us understand leadership at the intersections of research, application, and art. A fourth area will be developed from conference highlights.

• Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities: With this submission, contributors should present question(s) or hypotheses, pertinent literature, findings and discussion that relate to the concept of leadership for transformation. Both qualitative and quantitative research submissions are encouraged including, but not limited to, case studies, ethnographies, interviews, biographies, autoethnographies, or surveys.



• Application of Models, Practices, or Philosophies: Those who have applied, developed, taught or practiced leadership for transformation are encouraged to submit in this area. The contributor’s application or teaching activity, for example, must include an explanation of the underlying theory, philosophy, and/or model that grounds or supports the application. Depending on the focus of the submission, contributors may also want to include a critically reflective section to the work.



• Artistic Works: Poets, essayists, dramatists, photographers, and fine artists are encouraged to submit original works that thematically represent or relate to leadership for transformation.



• Invited Submissions: Conference Highlights: Interesting and provocative keynote addresses, panel discussions, papers, and presentations will be chosen from the ILA 2009 Prague Conference and included in this area. Final submissions for Conference Highlights will not be chosen until the completion of the 2009 Prague Conference and will be invited additions to the volume.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted works (research, applications/philosophies/models, and artistic poems, dramatic works or literary essays) should be no longer than 5000 words. Submitted works will be blind-reviewed, thus all identifying information (Area of submission, names, affiliations, and contact information of all contributors) should be on a separate cover sheet. APA style should be followed. Notes should be kept to a minimum but when used should come in the form of endnotes. Margins are to be 1” on all four sides, left-aligned, NOT justified, and all pages numbered in the top right-hand corner with the narrative starting on page 1. Submissions should be in Times New Roman, font size 12, double spaced, and indented paragraphs for all submissions EXCEPT artistic works. (Literary essayists should follow all guidelines.) Please note: All submissions must meet these guidelines except artistic works.

Send submissions electronically to Debra DeRuyver at dderuyver@ila-net.org by December 1, 2009.

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