With a focus on real-world problems, the book argues for new leadership mindsets to tackle the great challenges of our time and will help build an understanding of leadership to address key issues such as climate change, technological advancement, inequality, housing and alienation.We are hurtling towards apocalypse through a lethal convergence of violence, climate catastrophe and multiple inequalities. Leadership is often seen as the remedy, yet it also produced many of the problems it is asked to solve. This book rethinks four leadership essentials – resisting, timing, spacing and feeling – outlining an approach that is urgent, inclusive and pragmatic. Drawing on organisation and political studies, geography and social theory, and insights from exemplary global practitioners, Smolović Jones assembles a survival kit of practices for communities, workplaces, nations and beyond, providing a compelling framework for leading differently in a world that urgently needs it.
Owain Smolović Jones is a professor of Organisational Studies at Durham University.
Introduction: Leadership To Save the WorldPart I: Resisting Leadership1. Resistance Is Our Foundation2. Struggles of Resistance LeadershipPart II: Timing Leadership3. Leadership in the Present Tense4. Leadership From the Past5. Caring for the FuturePart III: Spacing Leadership6. Oppressive Space7. Spatial Leadership From and With the Body8. Spacing Out LeadershipPart IV: Feeling Leadership9. From the Brutal To Care10. A Repertoire of Feeling LeadershipConclusion: Assembling a Leadership Survival Kit