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These web pages are provided as support materials for a ten lecture course to accompany Dilemmas of Leadership,

This important new text provides a thematic examination of the most influential ideas and writings on leadership. The reader is encouraged to reflect critically on the relationship between theory and practice as each of the themes is addressed and examined. A critical and reflective approach reveals dilemmas of leadership that are concealed in more descriptive treatments. This thematic treatment serves to illustrate the confusion contradictions of leadership.

The authors have developed an approach that will prove invaluable to readers including their new and groundbreaking three-component structure for understanding leadership. Dealing with transactional leadership, transformational leadership and trust based leadership students and practitioners alike are encouraged to delve deeper into the complexities of leadership and assisted with the structure, insightful writing style and reflective approach of this text.