On Leadership
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On Leadership

  1. English
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eBook - PDF

On Leadership

About this book

In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership.

  • Uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership, for example War and Peace, Othello, and Don Quixote.
  • Presents moral dilemmas related to leadership, for example the balance between private life and public duties, and between the expression and the control of sexuality.
  • Encourages readers to explore ideas that are sometimes subversive and unpalatable but may allow organizations to adapt in a rapidly changing world.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781405132466
eBook ISBN
9781405142618
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Human Resource Management
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. FOREWORD
  2. PREFACE
  3. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
  4. Issues of Leadership
  5. Appreciation of Leadership
  6. Queries
  7. CHAPTER 2 DUTY, REVENGE, AND INNOCENCE: OTHELLO
  8. Private Life and Public Duties
  9. Revenge and the Social Order?
  10. Queries
  11. CHAPTER 3 HERESY AND GENIUS: SAINT JOAN
  12. Exploitation and Exploration
  13. Can Leaders Selected for their Reliability Become Creative Leaders?
  14. Diversity and Unity
  15. Saint Joan
  16. Queries
  17. CHAPTER 4 AMBIGUITY, IRRELEVANCE, POWER, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER: WAR AND PEACE
  18. Organizations, Ambiguity, and Incoherence
  19. The Irrelevance of Human Intentions to History
  20. Irrelevance and the Anomalies of Leadership
  21. The Ambiguity of Power
  22. The Social Order
  23. Queries
  24. CHAPTER 5 GENDER, SEX, AND LEADERSHIP
  25. The Gender of Leadership in Organizations
  26. Sexuality, Organizations, and Leadership
  27. Queries
  28. CHAPTER 6 IMAGINATION, COMMITMENT, AND JOY: DON QUIXOTE
  29. Don Quixote de la Mancha
  30. Imagination
  31. Commitment
  32. Joy
  33. Lessons from Quixote
  34. Queries
  35. CHAPTER 7 PLUMBING AND POETRY
  36. Query
  37. APPENDIX 1 INTELLIGENCE VERSUS REASON: AN OVERVIEW OF JAMES MARCH’S WORK Thierry Weil
  38. Miseries of Reason
  39. Splendors of Reason
  40. Redemption through Enthusiasm
  41. APPENDIX 2 MUNDANE ORGANIZATIONS AND HEROIC LEADERS 1 James G. March
  42. INDEX