Alan Hooper (DL MA FRSA) is the Founder and a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.

'If you are a student at a business school, an academic researcher, a leadership consultant or a practical leader wishing to find out more about your craft...then this is the book for you...a collection of some of the best-published essays on this vast topic.' Alan Rundle, Leadership Matters, January 2007

• Contents: Introduction; Understanding Leadership: What leaders really do, John P. Cotter; On the psychodynamics of organizational totalitarianism, Howard S. Schwartz; Narcissistic leaders: the incredible pros, the inevitable cons, Michael Maccoby; The 5 minds of a manager, Jonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg; The leader's new work: building learning organizations, Peter M. Senge. Relationships: How to choose a leadership pattern, Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt; Leadership that gets results, Daniel Goleman; The effects of leader and follower emotional intelligence on performance and attitude: an exploratory study, Chi-Sum Wong and Kenneth S. Law; Leader distance: a review and a proposed theory, John Antonakis and Leanne Atwater; The necessary art of persuasion, Jay A. Conger; The executive as coach, James Waldroop and Timothy Butler; Taking the stress out of stressful conversations, Holly Weeks. Power and Leadership: The forms of power, Bertrand Russell; Power and organization, John Kenneth Galbraith; Power as the control of behavior, Robert Dahl; Exploring power, Gareth Morgan; Power is the great motivator, C. McClelland and David H. Burnham; Power failure in management circuits, Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Leadership, Identity and Difference: What it means to become a person, R. Rogers; Managing oneself, Peter F. Drucker; Why should anyone be led by you? Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones; The ambiguity of leadership, Jeffrey Pfeffer; The nature of leadership, Richard A. Barker. Imagination: The who question: constructing identity and the construction of truth, Keith Grint; Beyond Goffman: some notes on life and theatre as Art, Iain L. Mangham; Planning on the left side, managing on the right, Henry Mintzberg; The theory behind the practice, Gareth Morgan; Foresight, Alfred North Whitehead. Spirituality in Organisation: Soul work in organizations, Philip H. Mirvis; Spirituality in public service, Willa Bruce and John Novison; The theory of charismatic leadership: a dialogue, Robert C. Tucker; Ethics at work; money, spirituality, and happiness, Adrian Furnham; Leadership in turbulent times is spiritual, Margaret Wheatley; Name index.