
Against All Odds
Leadership and the Handmaid's Tale
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 13. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-80455-337-4 (ISBN)
Description
The problems we face in the second decade of the twenty-first century are too significant to be solved by a few chosen heroes. Consequently, the role of leadership educators and authors extends beyond encouraging "natural leaders" to accept the leadership call. Instead, our role is to inspire all global citizens to take the baton when needed.
Against All Odds explores leadership through the lens of the characters from HULU's TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and the original novel by Margaret Atwood, alongside Atwood's more recent sequel The Testaments (2019), analyzing the ethical dimensions of leadership. In particular, Wildermuth highlights the roles and responsibilities of leaders without authority during times of change and uncertainty. Each chapter of the book uses characters and storylines from the world of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments to help the reader connect theories, practices, and consequences of leaders' actions.
Against All Odds reinforces the key message that leadership is not the job of a few but the responsibility of all, prompting all leaders to reflect on and improve their own approaches. Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analyzing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.
Against All Odds explores leadership through the lens of the characters from HULU's TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and the original novel by Margaret Atwood, alongside Atwood's more recent sequel The Testaments (2019), analyzing the ethical dimensions of leadership. In particular, Wildermuth highlights the roles and responsibilities of leaders without authority during times of change and uncertainty. Each chapter of the book uses characters and storylines from the world of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments to help the reader connect theories, practices, and consequences of leaders' actions.
Against All Odds reinforces the key message that leadership is not the job of a few but the responsibility of all, prompting all leaders to reflect on and improve their own approaches. Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analyzing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80455-337-4 (9781804553374)
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08/2024
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Person
Cristina de Mello e Souza Wildermuth is an Associate Professor at Barry University in Miami, Florida, USA and the director of Barry's Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership. She is the Community Chair of Linked:HR, a major community for HR professionals with more than 1,000,000 members, and a member of the development and facilitation team for the International Leadership Association's annual Leadership Education Academy.
Content
Introduction: A Group of Women Near the Border
PART I: BEING A LEADER
Chapter 1. Introducing Leadership
Chapter 2. Leadership Trait Theories
Chapter 3. The Portrait of a Leader
Chapter 4. Leadership and Power
Chapter 5. Followership
PART II: THE ROLES WE PLAY
Chapter 6. The Roles We Play
Chapter 7. The Gilead Ceiling
PART III: COMPLEXITY AND CRISIS
Chapter 8. The Gilead System
Chapter 9. Ordinary People as Leaders
Chapter 10. It Takes a Village
Chapter 11. Times of Change
PART IV: THE GILEAD DILEMMA
Chapter 12. How do you solve a problem like Gilead?
Chapter 13. Who is a moral leader?
Chapter 14. Moral Courage
PART V: MOVING FORWARD
Chapter 15. Passing the Baton
Conclusion: Could it Happen Again?
PART I: BEING A LEADER
Chapter 1. Introducing Leadership
Chapter 2. Leadership Trait Theories
Chapter 3. The Portrait of a Leader
Chapter 4. Leadership and Power
Chapter 5. Followership
PART II: THE ROLES WE PLAY
Chapter 6. The Roles We Play
Chapter 7. The Gilead Ceiling
PART III: COMPLEXITY AND CRISIS
Chapter 8. The Gilead System
Chapter 9. Ordinary People as Leaders
Chapter 10. It Takes a Village
Chapter 11. Times of Change
PART IV: THE GILEAD DILEMMA
Chapter 12. How do you solve a problem like Gilead?
Chapter 13. Who is a moral leader?
Chapter 14. Moral Courage
PART V: MOVING FORWARD
Chapter 15. Passing the Baton
Conclusion: Could it Happen Again?