| Description |
ix, 209 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Constructions -- 1. Texts -- 2. Leadership as Performative: Or How the Words 'Leader' and 'Leadership' Do Things -- 3. The Leader as Hero -- 4. Learning to be a Leader - Training Courses -- Pt. II. Deconstructions -- 5. Queer(y)ing Leadership -- 6. Gendering Leadership -- 7. The Psyche and Leadership -- Closing Notes to Part II -- Pt. III. Towards Emancipatory Leadership Development? -- 8. Conclusions: Towards Emancipatory Leadership? |
| Summary |
"Management has failed: its successor is leadership. But can leadership fulfil the promises that are made in its name? Leadership as Identity, which brings together several studies of leadership, argues that it cannot. It shows how leadership - as currently conceptualised and practised - ignores or actively denies its antagonistic or disconcerting aspects. It explores the negative and unsettling elements of leadership and shows that to be a leader is to be anxious, stressed and defeated by the burden of having to be superhuman." |
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"The book is aimed at academics, students and managers. It uses post-structuralist theories about identity and the construction of the self to provide a body of ideas, a language even, that encourages readers to think in a different way about leadership. Anyone who has had any worries about the role of the leader - teachers, trainers, leaders, managers, staff - worries that they haven't perhaps been able to put into words, will gain new ideas and insights from reading this book. Combining scholarship with accessibility, it encourages its readers to explore leadership more critically than they have done before."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index |
| Subject |
Leadership.
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| Author |
Harding, Nancy, 1952-
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Learmonth, Mark.
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| LC no. |
2008037757 |
| ISBN |
0230516327 |
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9780230516328 |
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