Leading Beautifully

Fenwick W. English is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.Lisa Catherine Ehrich is Associate Professor of Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

If Zarathûshtrá teaches the power of inquiry and discovery, then English and Ehrich, two highly respected connoisseurs of leadership themselves, have masterfully met this challenge. Leading Beautifully is more than a study about leadership; it’s a quixotic journey in search of leadership possibilities through connoisseurship. It will restore your faith that managerialism is not the last stage in leadership development, but rather a wrong turn on the quest for seeking new understandings of the ineffable qualities of leadership. If art provides the world with beauty, then education allows us to use art to live life beautifully. What more could we ask from our leaders?"--Ira Bogotch, Professor of Educational Leadership, Florida Atlantic University"English and Ehrich set out to cast a new set of eyes on educational leadership, and they achieve this beautifully. The book is for anyone who has sensed that uneasy feeling of ‘surely there must be more’ while traversing our current knowledge base."--Allan Walker, Joseph Lau Chair Professor of International Educational Leadership, Dean of Education and Human Development, Hong Kong Institute of Education

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 Connoisseurship RevealedChapter 2 A Typology of ConnoisseurshipChapter 3 Educational Leaders as ConnoisseursChapter 4 How Artists and Leaders Think and WorkChapter 5 Portraits of ArtistsChapter 6 Portraits of Connoisseurs of Leadership PerformanceChapter 7: Connoisseurship Vs Corporate ManagerialismChapter 8 Leading Beautifully: The Cosmogony of ConnoisseurshipEpilogue: Final Lessons on ConnoisseurshipAppendixAbout the AuthorsIndex