Philosophy of Leadership

Robert Spillane is Professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia. He has been a visiting scholar at the London Business School, UK, the ABIN Institute in Germany, and the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He has published more than a dozen books on philosophy, psychology and management and a play, Entertaining Executives, which was performed at the Mermaid Theatre, London. Jean-Etienne Joullié worked as an engineer in Europe and Asia Pacific for 18 years. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, and a PhD in Philosophy. He has taught in management schools in Paris and Sydney and now teaches at the Gulf University for Sciences and Technology in Kuwait. He has published a book of philosophy and articles in management journals.

• 1. Heroic Leadership: Authority as Power 2. Rational Leadership: Arguing to Authority3. Cynicism: Confronting Managerial Leadership4. Stoicism: Managing Adversity 5. Religious Leadership: Two Faces of Authority6. Political Leadership: Contractual Authority7. German Romanticism: The Power of the Will8. Heroic Individualism: Anarchistic and Aristocratic9. Existentialism: Autonomy and Authority10. Leadership: The Power of Authority