Leader Work: Using Insight, Intuition and Imagination to Develop Leadership Practice [Hardcover]

Leader Work offers an engaging introduction to the power of reflection to support leaders in their development and professional practice. Written by a leading management researcher and consultant, the book builds on and goes beyond reflexive practice, to guide the reader on the inward and outward work involved in leadership.

This rigorous, diligent and inspired writing on leadership work is a page turner  not least because it creates an empathy with the reader through the challenges of leadership, right from the beginning of the book.  This holistic approach to doing leadership, alongside the continuous work of trying to do it the best we can, makes explicit all of our very human, institutional and resource constraints in tow. Hibbert brings the holistic self (mind, body, emotion, practice) of what it means to do leadership work, to life. Reflecting on his personal experiences he reveals theory in action. At the same time, the open and reflexive nature of his writing manages to balance straight forward heres something to think about that might help you advice, with recognition of the complex and dynamic nature of what it means to lead. In Hibberts presentation, we all experience moments of leadership  opportunities where we can step forward and act in particularly uncertain landscapes. As such, we are always becoming  as is our organisational culture and identity through our reflexive actions. This book is a must-read for anyone faced with the challenges and opportunities of leadership, as well as for those interested in developing theoretical approaches to the whole and multiple selves made-up through leadership action.

Professor Katy Mason, Professor of Markets, Marketing and Management, Lancaster University, and President of the British Academy of Management

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