1st Edition

Leadership Across Boundaries A Passage to Aporia

By Nathan Harter Copyright 2021
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

Leadership Across Boundaries: A Passage to Aporia theorizes on leadership in an unprecedented manner by stepping outside of conventional leadership theory and importing into leadership studies the implications of certain innovations in the social sciences, such as pluralism, complexity theory, and the dialogical turn, to change the way scholars discuss and study leadership. Leadership... Read more
1. Surrounded by icons: Seeing through images 2. Leader in context: Martin Luther translating the Bible into German 3. Studying the whole within which leadership takes place: Social action and spontaneous order 4. The emergent order of the Common Law 5. Macro/Micro perspectives: A basic dichotomy holding us back 6. Being at the center of tensions: Las Meninas 7. Leadership as a mode of participation in history: A peregrinal image 8. Dialogue as a mode of participation 9. Oscillations, chaos, and sync (oh my!) 10. Turbulence as the shape of things to come 11. Making sense in the turbulence: Leadership homeward 12. Making use of the turbulence: Extra-ordinary leadership 13. Embracing aporias, suffering, and death: the leadership of St. Francis 14. Arrival at port: Mediation and aikido politics

Biography

Nathan Harter is Professor of Leadership Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Previously, he practiced law in Indiana and became a full professor at Purdue University in the Department of Organizational Leadership.

"A unique take on leadership from an unusually gifted scholar. Rethinking Leadership: A Passage to Aporia should be on all leadership scholars’ bookshelves. It is unlike anything else I have read."Keith Grint, The University of Warwick, UK