Description
Book SynopsisLeadership studies today resembles a bewildering diversity of theories, concepts, constructs and approaches, struggling in huge part for meaning, relevance and impact. As Dennis Tourish so eloquently puts it, much of the literature suffers from âunrelenting trivialityâ and âsterile preoccupationsâ. Seeking to create a clean break from this current state of leadership studies, After Leadership begins with the premise of a post-apocalyptic world where only fragments of âleadership scienceâ now remain, echoing Alisdair McIntyreâs imagining of such a scene as the basis for re-establishing the foundations and focus of moral theory. From these fragments, the authors seek to construct a new leadership studies that challenges much of the established thinking on leadership, exposes its limitations and biases, and, most importantly, seeks to construct the foundations of a more inclusive, participatory, bold, relational and social platform for leadership in the future.
After Leade
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
PART I: Reworking Artefacts and Visual Fragments
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- Leadership competencies and frameworks. Brigid Carroll & Vesa Huotari
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- Films as archives of leadership theories: The Terminator film franchise. Nancy Harding
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- Psychometrics as attempting to ‘measure’ emotional labour and emotional intelligence Marian Iszatt-White
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PART II: A Series of Provocations on Losing the Leader from Leadership
- The last leader. Donna Ladkin
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- What is leadership studies took seriously the plurality of voices, perspectives and experiences traditionally excluded from research and knowledge development. Sonia Ospina
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- After leader: A world of leading and leadership … with no leader. Steve Kempster & Ken Parry
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- "Another world is possible": Imagining ‘authentic’ distributed leadership. Neil Sutherland
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PART III: Making What Was Invisible Visible
- New tensions and contradictions: Vulnerability, dependency, and invincibility. Towards a hopeful future for critical leadership studies? Jackie Ford
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- How about affective and embodied leadership. David Knights
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- Whiteness. Helena Liu
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- The lost metaphysics of leadership – reviving the meaning of leading and following. Scott Taylor
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PART IV: The End of Leadership
- Can we be done with leadership? Martin Parker
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- Walking backwards into the future: Imagining organisation with and without leadership. Suze Wilson
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- Leadership in liquid organizations. Stuart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha
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- Apocryphal leadership. Jonathan Gosling & Peter Case
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References
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