Melina / Burgess / Lid-Falkman The Embodiment of Leadership

A Volume in the International Leadership Series, Building Leadership Bridges
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61575-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volumeintegrates critical theory with authentic leadership development,exploring the notion that leadership is both a discursive practiceand a performative identity. Each year the International LeadershipAssociation publishes a book that captures the best contemporarythinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars,practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadershipstudies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the InternationalLeadership Series Building Leadership Bridges connects waysof researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership acrosscultures, over time, and around the world.
Praise for The Embodiment of Leadership
"Read this book to experience an artistic and more robust senseof leadership; to rise to the challenge to gain alignment in mind,body, and spirit; and to heed the call to heal the shadows we asleaders sometimes cast over our collective humanity. Read this bookto become more whole." --Shann Ray Ferch, professor ofleadership studies, Gonzaga University
"For once leadership expertsconsider the mind-body problem fromthe perspective of the latter--the body. Those with an interestinhow the body is brought to bear on the exercise ofleadershipwould do wellto exploreThe Embodiment of Leadership."--Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer inPublic Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, HarvardUniversity
"The Embodiment of Leadership goes beyond the banal byusing our body experiences as the point of departure in decipheringthe leadership conundrum. Anyone interested in the study ofleadership would do well to pay attention to this book."--Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Distinguished ClinicalProfessor of Leadership and Organiza-tional Change, The Raoul deVitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development,INSEAD
"Leadership is a social construction. The Embodiment ofLeadership presents a multifaceted approach to understandinghow we, as a society, define, create, and contend with leaders andleadership. Serious scholars and students of leadership need toread this." --Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis LeadershipInstitute, Claremont McKenna College

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melina, Lois Ruskai

Burgess, Gloria J.

Lid-Falkman, Lena

Marturano, Antonio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors vii
Introduction xiii
Lois Ruskai Melina
Part One: Leadership Thresholds 1
Gloria J. Burgess
1. The Anatomy of Leadership 5
Stephanie Guastella Lindsay
2. Dramatic Leadership: Dorothy Heathcote's Autopoietic,or Embodied, Leadership Model 23
Kate Katafiasz
3. Leadership in the Time of Liminality: A Framework forLeadership in an Era of Deep Transformation 43
David Holzmer
4. Seeking Alignment in the World Body: The Art of Embodiment65
Skye Burn
Part Two: Leaders Are Their Bodies 85
Lena Lid Falkman
5. (De/Re)Constructing Leading Bodies: Developing CriticalAttitudes and Somaesthetic Practices 89
Maylon Hanold
6. Dollmaking as an Expression of Women's Leadership109
Kimberly Yost
7. Leadership Embodiment and Resistance: The Complex Journey ofLatin American Pentecostal Women Pastors 129
Nora Méndez and Fernando Mora
8. Michelle Obama's Embodied Authentic Leadership: Leadingby Lifestyle 149
Elizabeth D. Wilhoit
Part Three: Leadership By and Through the Body 171
Antonio Marturano
9. Shall I Lead Now? Learner Experiences ofLeader-Follower Relationships Through Engagement with theDance 175
Julie Burge, Ray Batchelor, and Lionel Cox
10. Embodied Learning Experience in Leadership Development193
Perttu Salovaara and Arja Ropo
11. Professionals Are Their Bodies: The Language of the Body asSounding Board in Leadership and Professional Communication217
Helle Winther
12. From the Ground Up: Revisioning Sources and Methods ofLeadership Development 239
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler
Name Index 259
Subject Index 263