Leadership as Lunacy

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society. Fenwick W. English (Ph.D.) is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 2001. As a scholar/practitioner he has held positions as a school principal and superintendent of schools in California and New York and as a department chair, dean, and vice-chancellor of academic affairs at universities in Ohio and Indiana. He is the former President of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). His research has been reported in national and international academic forums. He edited the 2006 SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, the 2009 SAGE Library of Educational Thought and Practice: Educational Leadership and Administration; and the 2011 SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership (2nd Ed.). In 2013, he received the Living Legend Award from NCPEA for his lifetime contribution to the field of educational leadership.

"Lumby and English have exposed the power of language to shape meaning, engage, and enrich. Their work is an important contribution to how we understand and practice leadership in all fields."

• PrefaceAbout the Authors1. The Presence and Power of MetaphorsNot Just WordsFrom Gilgamesh to Obama: Metaphors Communicate and ConnectHow Metaphors WorkWhy a Book About Metaphors for Educational Leaders?StructureToward a New Kind of Wisdom2. Leadership as MachineRunning the FactoryLeaders Running the MachineEvaluating the MachineOn Being a MachineThe Machine Metaphor3. Leadership as AccountingThe Relentless Pursuit of Rationality and WasteEducational HyperrationalizationThe Cheating Culture: Corrosion of the Means/Ends Accountability ContinuumThe Accounting Metaphor: A Chimera Wrapped Up as an Ideology4. Leadership as WarPreparing for a Board MeetingThe Ambivalence of War MetaphorsMilitary Admonitions, Educational Situations, and ContradictionsThe Way of the Warrior Is Death: Education Is Life5. Leadership as SportSports: Language and ActionThe Little ?Closed-System? World of an Athletic TeamThe Problem of the Charismatic Coach as a Model for the CEOUnderstanding the Nature of PowerThe Sports Metaphor: An Impossible Dream6. Leadership as TheaterThe School as Stage: What Lies Beneath?The School as Staged: Long Run or Repertory?The School as Staged: Acting LeadershipThe School as Ritual PerformanceSchool as Theater7. Leadership as ReligionThe Concept of the External Supreme BeingTowards Perfection: The Idea of ProgressManifestations of Religion in Management and Educational LeadershipThe Presence of ?Managementspeak? and Religious Rituals in School PracticesWarring MetaphorsThe Power of Religious Metaphors: The Universal Versus The Dogmatic and Partisan ExperienceLearning How to Lead Outside the Command and Control Model8. Leadership as LunacyLunacy as a Form of ToxicityLeaders as LunaticsThe Lunatic PsycheSymptoms, Signs and PathologiesThe Lunacy Metaphor9. Metaphors of LeadershipThe Uses of MetaphorsGrand NarrativesPositive MetaphorsSo, Where to Now?ReferencesIndex