The Arts of Leadership

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924489-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 454 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grint, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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?

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Grint is University Reader in Organizational Behaviour, Said Business School, and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour at Templeton College, University of Oxford. He worked for ten years in various industries before his academic career. Prior to his present positions he taught at Brunel University for six years.