Leadership: A Critical TextWhen Simon Western's Leadership text first published, it received rave reviews from students, academics and practising leaders and managers all over the world. Written in an accessible style, the book challenges the notion of the individual or hero leader. Western develops the idea of leadership as a distributed process and provides a new framework for understanding and implementing this. Part one deconstructs leadership, providing a critical review and analysis of the key debates within leadership; part two reconstructs leadership, revealing the three dominant discourses of the Controller, Therapist and Messiah, and Eco-leadership discourse. Eco-leadership captures new leadership ideas and practices for twenty-first century organizations. This widely anticipated second edition has been updated in line with recent events and the latest practice and research, with end of chapter questions encouraging reflection on key issues. |
Contents
DECONSTRUCTING LEADERSHIP | 1 |
WHY A CRITICAL APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP? | 3 |
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? | 26 |
ASYMMETRIC LEADERSHIP A BRIEF CASE STUDY | 55 |
AGAINST LEADERSHIP AUTONOMIST LEADERSHIP | 70 |
LEADERSHIP AND DIVERSITY | 90 |
LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE | 107 |
CORPORATE FUNDAMENTALISM | 120 |
THE CONTROLLER LEADERSHIP DISCOURSE | 160 |
THE THERAPIST LEADERSHIP DISCOURSE | 186 |
THE MESSIAH LEADERSHIP DISCOURSE | 216 |
THE ECOLEADERSHIP DISCOURSE | 243 |
AN OVERVIEW OF THE LEADERSHIP DISCOURSES | 281 |
LEADERSHIP FORMATION CREATING SPACES FOR LEADERSHIP TO FLOURISH | 302 |
EPILOGUE LEADERSHIP IN THE AFTERMATH | 322 |
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