
Leadership
Limits and possibilities
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 17. November 2022
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-1-350-33313-0 (ISBN)
Description
Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of leadership and through this debate suggests possible ways to improve as a leader. It is structured around 5 key aspects of leadership: person, product, position, process and purpose, providing a useful organizing framework. It combines theoretical discussions with lively examples to bring the subject alive.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-350-33313-0 (9781350333130)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University, where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018. Owain Smolovic-Jones is Director of the Open University's Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures academic centre of excellence and a leadership scholar.
Content
Introduction
What is leadership: person, result, position or process?
Leadership as person: putting the "ship" back into "leader-ship"
Leadership as results: putting the subjunctive back where it belongs
Leadership as process: leadership as a reflection of community
Leadership as position: hydras and elephants in space
Leadership as purpose: what is the point?
What is leadership: person, result, position or process?
Leadership as person: putting the "ship" back into "leader-ship"
Leadership as results: putting the subjunctive back where it belongs
Leadership as process: leadership as a reflection of community
Leadership as position: hydras and elephants in space
Leadership as purpose: what is the point?