Leadership: A Critical Text

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SAGE Publications, Dec 7, 2007 - Business & Economics - 240 pages
Leadership: A Critical Text provides a critical review and analysis of the key debates within leadership. Written in an accessible style, this book challenges the notion of the individual or 'hero' leader. Author Simon Western develops the idea of leadership as a distributed process between lots of agents in an organization. In doing so he provides a new framework which readers can use to understand and implement this 'distributed' type of leadership.

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About the author (2007)

Simon Western is CEO and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd, an avant-garde coaching company whose purpose is to ‘coach leaders to act in good faith to create the good society’ www.analyticnetwork.com. He is an internationally recognized thought leader on leadership, coaching and organizational behaviour. Taking his unique experience and an unusual theoretical position into the workplace, he draws on critical theory, networked theory, social movement theory and psychoanalysis to help leaders develop new insights, act ethically and create progressive change in organizations. Simon leads advanced coaching and leadership training courses to develop new ‘Eco-leadership’ approaches to help leaders adapt to today’s disruptive, network society. With over 200 registered coaches across the globe, Analytic-Network Coaching is growing fast. He shares his thinking as an international keynote speaker, academic and is author of three acclaimed books; Global Leadership Perspectives, Insights and Analysis (with Eric-Jean Gautier), Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd edn: Sage, 2019) and Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage 2012). Simon works directly with senior leaders on radical change strategies, organizational change and in-depth on personal and leadership challenges, drawing on his psychotherapist background.

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