1st Edition

Understanding Leadership through Natural Sciences A Fresh Perspective

By Nathan W. Harter Copyright 2027
202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offered an exploration of how scientific principles can illuminate and redefine leadership. It delves into the interdisciplinary nexus of leadership and the natural sciences, examining how concepts from physics, biology, and systems thinking can enrich our understanding of leadership. It begins by exploring the contributions of Michael Polanyi to leadership in the sciences and... Read more

Foreword by Adrianna DeSantis, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Ph.D. candidate)

Introduction to the book

1. Leadership in the sciences: Contributions of Michael Polanyi to the study of leadership with Molly Camaioni

2. Birth of a metaphor: How is leadership like a rainbow?

3. The extent to which leadership exhibits fluid dynamics: Some preliminary considerations

4. Leadership for a system’s boundaries: Imagining the forms by which we live

5. The topology of Oz: Boundaries, paths, and bubbles

6. Leadership as a participation in folding … and unfolding

7. Dreams, drugs, madness, poetry, and the underworld: Seedbed of the resistance

8. A shared metaphysics grounded in multiplicity: Organizing principles

Biography

Nathan W. Harter is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University, USA.