In this essential new text, Rickards and Clark encourage students and practitioners alike to delve deeper into leadership complexities and to discover what's new and important by testing and re-drawing their leadership 'maps': their aspirations of leadership. This exciting text reviews issues such as transactional leadership, transformational leadership, 5th level leadership, servant leadership, and the management of ethical dilemmas, and in illustrating the confusions and contradictions of leadership, it develops an approach that will prove invaluable. Important issues covered include: trust based leadership social identity explanations of leadership distributed leadership 'tipping point' theory of transformational change. The book's structure, insightful writing style and original approach encourage readers to reflect critically on the relationship between theory and practice as each theme is addressed and accompanying case studies examined. Visit the Companion website at http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/0415355850/

Table of Contents

1. Leadership, Stories and Maps 2. Born or Made? Dilemmas of Destiny and Development 3. Dilemmas of Co-ordination and Boundaries in Project Team Leadership 4. The Magic of Leadership: Charisma and its Redress 5. Shared Meanings and Why Myths Matter: The Power of the Symbolic 6. Trust and the Dilemmas of Rationality and Freedom 7. Do Strategic Leaders Matter? 8. Dilemmas of Gender and Diversity 9. Nice Guys Lose, Don't They? Ethical Dilemmas 10. Emerging Issues and Dilemmas