One main reason we have such difficulty in explaining and enhancing leadership, Grint argues, is because we often adopt perspectives and models that obscure rather than illuminate the issues involved. The reliance upon traditional scientific analysis has not provided the anticipated advances in our understanding because leadership is more fruitfully considered as an art, or more exactly an array of arts, rather than as a science. Grint's rich and meticulously-researched profiles combine to reveal these Arts of Leadership. Grint investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical…mehr
One main reason we have such difficulty in explaining and enhancing leadership, Grint argues, is because we often adopt perspectives and models that obscure rather than illuminate the issues involved. The reliance upon traditional scientific analysis has not provided the anticipated advances in our understanding because leadership is more fruitfully considered as an art, or more exactly an array of arts, rather than as a science. Grint's rich and meticulously-researched profiles combine to reveal these Arts of Leadership.Grint investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the world's most famous leaders.
Keith Grint is University Reader in Organizational Behaviour, Said Business School, and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour at Templeton College, University of Oxford. He worked for ten years in various industries before his academic career. Prior to his present positions he taught at Brunel University for six years.
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* Introduction: The Arts of Leadership * Part I: Parallel Leadership Situations * Chapter 1: Crash Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic * Chapter 2: The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies * Chapter 3: Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals * Chapter 4: Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift * Part II: Situating Extreme Leaders * Chapter 5: Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary * Chapter 6: Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero * Chapter 7: Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex * Chapter 8: Martin Luther King: The Rhetoric of Social Leadership * Chapter 9: The End of Leadership? * References
* Introduction: The Arts of Leadership * Part I: Parallel Leadership Situations * Chapter 1: Crash Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic * Chapter 2: The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies * Chapter 3: Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals * Chapter 4: Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift * Part II: Situating Extreme Leaders * Chapter 5: Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary * Chapter 6: Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero * Chapter 7: Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex * Chapter 8: Martin Luther King: The Rhetoric of Social Leadership * Chapter 9: The End of Leadership? * References
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