Leadership and Coherence A Cognitive Approach [Paperback]

Leadership and Coherenceinvestigates how leaders justify their decisions, and how they bring about coherence amongst followers. Taking a cognitive approach, it builds on the work of Hannah Arendt to attempt a phenomenology of judgment, examining how the moral imperative experienced by leaders can be shared by their community so both leader and led are guided by a mutual purpose.

Through biographical case studies of historical leaders, this book illustrates how successful leaders operate in a turbulent world, not only making their own decisions but also gathering likeminded followers to share in a common vision and shared sense of purpose.  

Chapter 1 Circumscribing the field       
Chapter 2 Locating the center        
Chapter 3 The framework for this investigation      
Chapter 4 From it to you to us       
Chapter 5 Cameron finds himself transfixed by  
   A Sunday Afternoon on The Island of La Grande Jatte    
Chapter 6 The Shattering         
Chapter 7 The persuasions of Socrates       
Chapter 8 The purposes of Abraham Lincoln      
Chapter 9 Jan Pato1ka and pneumopathology       
Chapter 10 Transcendence or a Romantic delusion&or worse? 

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