The Arts of Leadership

Are leaders born or made? Do they have particular traits or are we all potential leaders? Keith Grint examines the notion of leadership as an array of 'arts' in a series of rich essay portraits of some of the most famous, and infamous, leaders (for example Florence Nightingale, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Horatio Nelson, Adolf Hitler, and Martin Luther King). With scenarios drawn from across the spectrum to include business, politics, society, and the military, this book will be
of interest to anyone curious about the nature and function of leadership.

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Organization Studies ... this is a masterful book of its sort ... Grint makes his case consistently and persuasively ... This is an excellent book that deserves to be considered as one of the reference points in the contemporary literature on leadership.

Ben Maclennan, Leadership This book makes for thoroughly digestible reading. Management Theory with a difference.

Cary Cooper, Times Higher Educational Supplement 31/01/2001 Well written ... truly a voyage of remarkable insight into comparative success and failure situations in different contexts ... It is steeped in social and political history, which makes it unique and, for any managers who are students of history, a wonderful excursion. ... fascinating, illuminating and absorbing.

Long Range Planning An impressive collection of sixteen stimulating articles on a wide variety of issues on the whole subject of leadership ... One of the best collections of articles available on this critically important subject.

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Introduction: The Arts of Leadership; PART I: PARALLEL LEADERSHIP SITUATIONS; Chapter 1: Crash Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic; Chapter 2: The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies; Chapter 3: Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals; Chapter 4: Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift; PART II: SITUATING EXTREME LEADERS; Chapter 5: Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary; Chapter 6: Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero; Chapter 7: Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex; Chapter 8: Martin Luther King: The Rhetoric of Social Leadership; Chapter 9: The End of Leadership?; References

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