250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Leadership studies today resembles a bewildering diversity of theories, concepts, constructs and approaches, struggling in huge part for meaning, relevance and impact. As Dennis Tourish so eloquently puts it, much of the literature suffers from ‘unrelenting triviality’ and ‘sterile preoccupations’. Seeking to create a clean break from this current state of leadership studies, After Leadership... Read more

List of Tables and Figures



Foreword



Preface





PART I: Reworking Artefacts and Visual Fragments







  1. Leadership competencies and frameworks. Brigid Carroll & Vesa Huotari






  2. Films as archives of leadership theories: The Terminator film franchise. Nancy Harding






  3. Psychometrics as attempting to ‘measure’ emotional labour and emotional intelligence Marian Iszatt-White




  4. PART II: A Series of Provocations on Losing the Leader from Leadership





  5. The last leader. Donna Ladkin






  6. What is leadership studies took seriously the plurality of voices, perspectives and experiences traditionally excluded from research and knowledge development. Sonia Ospina






  7. After leader: A world of leading and leadership … with no leader. Steve Kempster & Ken Parry






  8. "Another world is possible": Imagining ‘authentic’ distributed leadership. Neil Sutherland




  9. PART III: Making What Was Invisible Visible





  10. New tensions and contradictions: Vulnerability, dependency, and invincibility. Towards a hopeful future for critical leadership studies? Jackie Ford






  11. How about affective and embodied leadership. David Knights






  12. Whiteness. Helena Liu






  13. The lost metaphysics of leadership – reviving the meaning of leading and following. Scott Taylor




  14. PART IV: The End of Leadership





  15. Can we be done with leadership? Martin Parker






  16. Walking backwards into the future: Imagining organisation with and without leadership. Suze Wilson






  17. Leadership in liquid organizations. Stuart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha






  18. Apocryphal leadership. Jonathan Gosling & Peter Case






 



References



Index

Biography

Brigid Carroll is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.





Josh Firth is a PhD student at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.



Suze Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand.