Exploring Leadership

Richard Bolden's current research interests include distributed/shared leadership, leadership in higher education, cross-cultural leadership, and the relationship between leadership development and performance management. Teaching responsibilities include the Exeter MBA, CPD award, BA in Management and Leadership, and MA in Leadership Studies. Prior to joining CLS he was a research psychologist at the Institute for Work Psychology, University of Sheffield. He has an extensive publication history, including numerous journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and research reports.Beverley Hawkins has been a lecturer at the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School since January 2009. She has published work on recruitment and selection practices, leadership and corporate culture, resistance to leadership and teamworking practices.Jonathan Gosling trained as an anthropologist before working for several years as a mediator in neighbourhood conflicts in London. After taking a mid-career MBA, he moved into management education at Lancaster University, where he directed the MBA and other executive programmes, and co-founded, with Henry Mintzberg, a new approach to management education: the International Masters in Practising Management. In 2003 Jonathan joined the University of Exeter as Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies and Professor of Leadership Studies. He has published articles in numerous key management and leadership journals, and several books, including: Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander (2005, Brealey), Leadership: the Key Concepts (2007, Routledge), and John Adair: Fundamentals of Leadership (2007, Palgrave Macmillan). Jonathan advises companies, international agencies, and government departments on their leadership-related issues.Scott Taylor is Reader in Leadership & Organization Studies, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Before this he worked as a senior lecturer in the Centre for Leadership Studies at University of Exeter Business School, and has lectured and researched at Manchester Metropolitan, Open, Birmingham, and Essex universities, where he was involved in under- and postgraduate education.

• 1. INTRODUCTION: EXPLORING LEADERSHIP ; Not Another Book on Leadership! ; Leadership: The Panacea Of Our Times? ; Changing Perspectives on Leadership ; Studying Leadership ; Dissatisfaction With Leadership and Management Theory and Education ; Reframing Leadership Studies ; Chapter Summary ; 2. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; The Contested Nature of Leadership ; Philosophical Origins of Contemporary Leadership Theory ; Leadership Is Sexy And Management Is Boring... Or Are They? ; Contemporary Theories of Leadership ; So, What Is Leadership? ; Chapter Summary ; 3. INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; Leadership and Personality: What are leaders LIKE? ; Leadership Styles and Behaviours: What do leaders DO? ; Leadership and Identity: Who do you Think you are? ; Keeping It Real: The implications of authentic leadership ; Are You Sitting Comfortably? Leaders as storytellers ; Leading From the Heart? Leadership and emotions ; Just another Set of Traits? Critiques of authentic and emotionally intelligent leadership ; Chapter Summary ; 4. ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; Leadership and Organizational Performance ; Leadership and Power ; Leadership Competencies: The science of leadership ; Setting the Direction: Strategic leadership ; Rites, Rituals and Belonging: Leadership and organizational culture ; Setting the Scene: Putting leadership into context ; Researching Leadership in Organizations ; Chapter Summary ; 5. SOCIETAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; Being One Of Us: Leading in communities ; Being Global, Being Local, and Being Worldly ; Saving Our Planet and Ourselves: Leading for sustainability ; Beauty and Aesthetics in Leadership: Cultural leadership ; When Leadership Isnt the Answer ; Chapter Summary ; 6. EMERGING PERSPECTIVES AND ENDURING DILEMMAS IN LEADERSHIP ; Why Cant a Woman Behave Like a Man? Leadership and gender ; Leaders Make Me Sick! Leadership and toxicity ; Being Absent, Being Present: Leadership in a virtual world ; The Social Responsibility of Business is... Leadership and morality ; Leading into a Meaningful Future: Leadership and spirituality ; Chapter Summary ; 7. CONCLUSION: WHERE NEXT FOR LEADERSHIP STUDIES? ; Leadership, Society and the Next Ten Years ; Preparing For an Uncertain Future ; Many Perspectives but No Right Way of Looking at Leadership ; Rerouting Our Enquiries ; Moving Forward With an Eye on The Past ; Chapter Summary

Comprehensive and authoritative ... this is simultaneously encyclopaedic and engaging, and I would not hesitate in recommending this to anyone who wanted to know more about the current state of the field in leadership studies.