Grint investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the world's most famous leaders.
List of Figures and Table 1. Introduction: The Arts of Leadership Part One. Parallel Leadership Situations 2. Crash-Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic 3. The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies 4. Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals 5. Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift Part Two. Situating Extreme Leaders 6. Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary 7. Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero 8. Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex 9. Martin Luther King's 'Dream Speech': The Rhetoric of Social Leadership 10. The End of Leadership? References Index