In Giro Per L'Italia by Lazzarino

In Giro Per L'Italia by Lazzarino

This book is about leadership and its strategies. Drawing on Indian prime ministers since Independence, it traces personality traits and leadership skills that have shaped many futures. It examines a range of leadership profiles to study dominant traits in one of the most demanding leadership roles in the world. The volume focuses on Machiavellianism and narcissism as a framework to policy-personality connections and demagogic tendencies in leaders in politics and in everyday life.

Accessible, engaging, and provocative, this book will be essential reading for professionals across industries and corporations. The general reader interested in leadership studies and Indian politics will also find this book useful.

Graziana Lazzarino, a native of Genoa, holds a Laurea cum laude from Genoa University and is currently a Professor of Italian at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has taught at Wellesley College, Middlebury College, Central Connecticut State College, and the University of Nebraska, among other European schools and American colleges and universities. En giro per l'Italia: A Quick Introduction to Italian, Da Capo, and Per tutti i gusti are among her other works. The Italian government knighted her in June 2004 for her contributions to the teaching of Italian language and culture.