Leah Tomkins, Independent Scholar, Visiting Professor, University of the West of England, and Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

‘This brilliantly incisive masterpiece will completely transform your understanding of Kafka and what he has to offer to the study and practice of leadership. An absolute must-read for management and organization studies scholars, and a stunning exemplar of what a properly in-depth engagement with a universally known but often misinterpreted genius can achieve. You will never use “Kafkaesque” in vain again!’

• Contents:Introduction: Kafka’s Leadership PerspectivePART I TEXTS AND THEMES1 The Judgement: Lessons for authentic leadership2 The Metamorphosis: Lessons for caring leadership3 The Trial: Lessons for relational leadership4 In the Penal Colony: Lessons for embodied leadership5 The Castle: Lessons for transformational leadership6 Josefine, the Singer: Lessons for collective leadershipPART II INSIGHTS AND INSPIRATIONS7 Tactics of version-control8 The language of leadership9 Writing and righting the self10 A Kafkan manifesto for leadershipBibliography

Leah Tomkins, Independent Scholar, Visiting Professor, University of the West of England, and Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

‘This brilliantly incisive masterpiece will completely transform your understanding of Kafka and what he has to offer to the study and practice of leadership. An absolute must-read for management and organization studies scholars, and a stunning exemplar of what a properly in-depth engagement with a universally known but often misinterpreted genius can achieve. You will never use “Kafkaesque” in vain again!’

• Contents:Introduction: Kafka’s Leadership PerspectivePART I TEXTS AND THEMES1 The Judgement: Lessons for authentic leadership2 The Metamorphosis: Lessons for caring leadership3 The Trial: Lessons for relational leadership4 In the Penal Colony: Lessons for embodied leadership5 The Castle: Lessons for transformational leadership6 Josefine, the Singer: Lessons for collective leadershipPART II INSIGHTS AND INSPIRATIONS7 Tactics of version-control8 The language of leadership9 Writing and righting the self10 A Kafkan manifesto for leadershipBibliography

Leah Tomkins, Independent Scholar, Visiting Professor, University of the West of England, and Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

‘This brilliantly incisive masterpiece will completely transform your understanding of Kafka and what he has to offer to the study and practice of leadership. An absolute must-read for management and organization studies scholars, and a stunning exemplar of what a properly in-depth engagement with a universally known but often misinterpreted genius can achieve. You will never use “Kafkaesque” in vain again!’

• Contents:Introduction: Kafka’s Leadership PerspectivePART I TEXTS AND THEMES1 The Judgement: Lessons for authentic leadership2 The Metamorphosis: Lessons for caring leadership3 The Trial: Lessons for relational leadership4 In the Penal Colony: Lessons for embodied leadership5 The Castle: Lessons for transformational leadership6 Josefine, the Singer: Lessons for collective leadershipPART II INSIGHTS AND INSPIRATIONS7 Tactics of version-control8 The language of leadership9 Writing and righting the self10 A Kafkan manifesto for leadershipBibliography