Fictional Leaders Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends [Paperback]

Management theory is vague about the experience of leading. Success, power, achievement are discussed but less focus is given to negative experiences leaders faced such as loneliness or disappointment. This book addresses difficult-to-explore aspects of leadership through well-known works of literature drawing lessons from fictional leaders.Notes on Contributors Introduction Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great; L.Mitchell Sharing the Secret - Joseph Conrad on Leadership at Sea; P.Villiers The Isolation of the Spirit - Captain Horatio Hornblower RN; S.Jones Leadership and Monomania: Herman Melville's Moby Dick; B.Sievers Nevil Shute - 'Pastoral'; D.Weir 'Things for fall apart' - Chinua Achebe; J.Gosling Leadership and Improvisation - 'A Bell for Adano' by John Hersey; N.Provizer The Silhouette of Leadership - James Bond and Miss Moneypenny; B.Hawkins 'A Wild Sheep Chase' - Haruki Murakami; C.Land, M.Sliwa & S.Spoelstra Leadership and Expectation - Thomas Pynchon; P.Pelzer & P.Case Leadership - 'The Madness of the Day' by Maurice Blanchot; H.Letiche & J-L.Moriceau Leadership and Dharma: The Indian Epics 'Ramayana' and 'Mahabharata' and Their Significance for Leadership Today; H.Verma The Leader as Poet: Tennyson, Whitman and Dickinson; B.Mossberg Leadership and Tradition: Rabindranath Tagore S.Kumar Leadership and Acceptability: Plato and the Odium of Truth; N.Harter Ten Great Works for Leadership Development; R.Adlam IndexJonathan Gosling is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, and has published articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Leadership, Management Learning and elsewhere. He advises companies, agencies and government departments across the world on their leadership-related issues. He is Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust and the Leadership Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Defence Academy, co-director of the European Leadership Centre and director olCp