Simon Western is CEO and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd, an avant-garde coaching company whose purpose is to ‘coach leaders to act in good faith to create the good society’ www.analyticnetwork.com.  He is an internationally recognized thought leader on leadership, coaching and organizational behaviour. Taking his unique experience and an unusual theoretical position into the workplace, he draws on critical theory, networked theory, social movement theory and psychoanalysis to help leaders develop new insights, act ethically and create progressive change in organizations.   Simon leads advanced coaching and leadership training courses to develop new ‘Eco-leadership’ approaches to help leaders adapt to today’s disruptive, network society. With over 200 registered coaches across the globe, Analytic-Network Coaching is growing fast. He shares his thinking as an international keynote speaker, academic and is author of three acclaimed books; Global Leadership Perspectives, Insights and Analysis (with Eric-Jean Gautier),  Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd edn: Sage, 2019) and Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage 2012).  Simon works directly with senior leaders on radical change strategies, organizational change and in-depth on personal and leadership challenges, drawing on his psychotherapist background.

"Everyone has opinions about leadership, but few people have thought about it as deeply as Simon Western. In this important text, he shows us why we should be suspicious of easy answers and noisy leaders. This is a beautifully written and thought provoking book for anyone who wants to move beyond glib recipes and really think hard about our collective futures."

• TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionPart One: Deconstructing LeadershipChapter 1: Why A Critical Approach to Leadership?Chapter 2: What is Leadership?Chapter 3: The Plurality Of Leadership: A Case StudyChapter 4: Against Leadership: Autonomist LeadershipChapter 5: Leadership and DiversityChapter 6: Leadership and Organizational CultureChapter 7: Corporate FundamentalismPart Two: Reconstructing LeadershipChapter 8: The Four Discourses of LeadershipChapter 9: The Controller Leadership DiscourseChapter 10: The Therapist Leadership DiscourseChapter 11: The Messiah Leadership DiscourseChapter 12: The Eco-Leadership DiscourseChapter 13: An Overview of the Leadership DiscoursesChapter 14: Leadership Formation: Creating Spaces for Leadership to FlourishChapter 15: Seeking Leadership SymptomsChapter 16: EpilogueReferencesIndex

Simon Western is CEO and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd, an avant-garde coaching company whose purpose is to ‘coach leaders to act in good faith to create the good society’ www.analyticnetwork.com.  He is an internationally recognized thought leader on leadership, coaching and organizational behaviour. Taking his unique experience and an unusual theoretical position into the workplace, he draws on critical theory, networked theory, social movement theory and psychoanalysis to help leaders develop new insights, act ethically and create progressive change in organizations.   Simon leads advanced coaching and leadership training courses to develop new ‘Eco-leadership’ approaches to help leaders adapt to today’s disruptive, network society. With over 200 registered coaches across the globe, Analytic-Network Coaching is growing fast. He shares his thinking as an international keynote speaker, academic and is author of three acclaimed books; Global Leadership Perspectives, Insights and Analysis (with Eric-Jean Gautier),  Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd edn: Sage, 2019) and Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage 2012).  Simon works directly with senior leaders on radical change strategies, organizational change and in-depth on personal and leadership challenges, drawing on his psychotherapist background.

"Everyone has opinions about leadership, but few people have thought about it as deeply as Simon Western. In this important text, he shows us why we should be suspicious of easy answers and noisy leaders. This is a beautifully written and thought provoking book for anyone who wants to move beyond glib recipes and really think hard about our collective futures."

• TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionPart One: Deconstructing LeadershipChapter 1: Why A Critical Approach to Leadership?Chapter 2: What is Leadership?Chapter 3: The Plurality Of Leadership: A Case StudyChapter 4: Against Leadership: Autonomist LeadershipChapter 5: Leadership and DiversityChapter 6: Leadership and Organizational CultureChapter 7: Corporate FundamentalismPart Two: Reconstructing LeadershipChapter 8: The Four Discourses of LeadershipChapter 9: The Controller Leadership DiscourseChapter 10: The Therapist Leadership DiscourseChapter 11: The Messiah Leadership DiscourseChapter 12: The Eco-Leadership DiscourseChapter 13: An Overview of the Leadership DiscoursesChapter 14: Leadership Formation: Creating Spaces for Leadership to FlourishChapter 15: Seeking Leadership SymptomsChapter 16: EpilogueReferencesIndex