The Arts of Leadership
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 May 2001
- ISBN 9780199244898
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages454 pages
- Size 233x156x23 mm
- Weight 686 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 black and white figures, 1 table 0
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Short description:
Are leaders born or made? Do they have particular traits or are we all potential leaders? Keith Grint examines the notion of leadership as an array of 'arts' in a series of rich essay portraits of some of the most famous, and infamous, leaders (for example Florence Nightingale, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Horatio Nelson, Adolf Hitler, and Martin Luther King). With scenarios drawn from across the spectrum to include business, politics, society, and the military, this book will be of interest to anyone curious about the nature and function of leadership.
MoreLong description:
Leadership is still much discussed, studied, and sought after, even though we now live in supposedly more democratic times with flatter organizations and empowered employees. But how can we best understand leadership? Are leaders born or made? Do they have particular traits or are we all potential leaders? Do the requirements for leadership change over time or are there timeless patterns? Do traditional approaches help us to pick and develop leaders or are there alternative ways that advance our understanding?
In this book, Keith Grint - who has been studying and teaching leadership for over a decade - investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the most famous, and infamous, leaders (e.g. Florence Nightingale, Richard Branson, Horatio Nelson, Martin Luther King, Henry Ford, etc.). The scenarios are drawn from right across the spectrum to include business, politics, society, and the military. The first part of the book considers four sets of parallel cases where leadership appears to be a major explanation of success and failure. The second part takes the four critical issues arising from these parallel cases (identity, strategic vision, organizational tactics, and persuasive communication) and explores them in detail.
One main reason we have such difficulty in explaining and enhancing leadership, Grint argues, is because we often adopt perspectives and models that obscure rather than illuminate the issues involved. The reliance upon traditional scientific analysis has not provided the anticipated advances in our understanding because leadership is more fruitfully considered as an art, or more exactly an array of arts, rather than as a science. Grint's rich and meticulously-researched profiles combine to reveal these Arts of Leadership.
... this is a masterful book of its sort ... Grint makes his case consistently and persuasively ... This is an excellent book that deserves to be considered as one of the reference points in the contemporary literature on leadership.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Arts of Leadership
Part I: Parallel Leadership Situations
Chapter 1: Crash Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic
Chapter 2: The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies
Chapter 3: Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals
Chapter 4: Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift
Part II: Situating Extreme Leaders
Chapter 5: Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary
Chapter 6: Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero
Chapter 7: Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex
Chapter 8: Martin Luther King: The Rhetoric of Social Leadership
Chapter 9: The End of Leadership?
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