Bert A. Spector (Ph.D., American History) is Associate Professor of International Business and Management at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. His research interests include organizational change, leadership, business model innovation and management history. His articles have appeared in Leadership, Management and Organizational History and the Harvard Business Review. He is the author/co-author of seven previous books, including The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal (1990), which received the Johnson, Smith and Knisely Award for New Perspectives on Executive Leadership. He has been a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and INSEAD.
Prologue: a discussion without end, and the nature of this inquiry
1. The great man and the beginning of contemporary discourse
2. More who than do and the trait vs behavior debate
3. Whistling in the dark and the insertion of power between followers and leaders
4. The sublime myth and the ideology of purpose
5. (White) men named John and the persistence of bias
6. No longer just managing and the misuse of ideal types
7. Globalization and the challenge of complexity
Epilogue: key moments in leadership discourse and a plausible chronological narrative
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