Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of leadership and through this debate suggests possible ways to improve as a leader. It is structured around 5 key aspects of leadership: person, product, position, process and purpose, providing a useful organizing framework. It combines theoretical discussions with lively examples to bring the subject alive.
Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University, where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018. Owain Smolovic-Jones is Director of the Open University's Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures academic centre of excellence and a leadership scholar.
IntroductionWhat is leadership: person, result, position or process?Leadership as person: putting the "ship" back into "leader-ship"Leadership as results: putting the subjunctive back where it belongsLeadership as process: leadership as a reflection of communityLeadership as position: hydras and elephants in spaceLeadership as purpose: what is the point?
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Keith Grint, University of Oxford) Grint, Keith (Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College
Keith Grint, University of Oxford) Grint, Keith (Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College
Grint, Keith Grint, University of Oxford) Grint, Keith (Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College
Keith Grint, University of Oxford) Grint, Keith (University Reader in Organizational Behaviour, Said Business School; Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College, University Reader in Organizational Behaviour, Said Business School; Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College