1st Edition

A Pluralistic Approach to Leadership Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Nathan W. Harter Copyright 2025
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This thought-provoking book adopts a pluralistic framework to examine leadership and raises important questions about how leadership studies scholars see and do their work. This book begins with an interdisciplinary discussion of what a pluralistic mindset is – a distinct framework for acknowledging and managing a diversity of opinions while retaining an abiding faith in the merits of rigorous... Read more

Foreword

Rachel Wagner

Introduction to the book

1. Methodological pluralism for theory work: Incessantly swinging around on a pivot

2. Limits of time in the investigation of leadership: The present moment and the longue durée

3. Going back to basics in the investigation of leadership: The logical benefits of de-differentiating

4. Getting back at them: Grievance and resentment as a motive for leadership

5. The generative presence of noise in decision-making

6. John Boyd and the idea of OODA Loops

7. Using the principles of analogism: Nothing is identical, but resemblances abound

Appendix

Biography

Nathan W. Harter is completing 14years as Professor of Leadership Studies at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, USA, after devoting 22 years to Purdue University in Indiana, USA. This is his eighth book about leadership.