Performing Leadership

✍ Scribed by Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A rigorous analysis of the implications of leadership being seen literally or metaphorically as a performance. The book introduces a framework which examines the performance of leadership through the dimensions of enactment, narrative and audience, focusing throughout on the ways in which managers can apply these ideas in their own leadership.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Boxes, Tables and Figures......Page 8
Section 1......Page 10
1 Prologue: Why Write Another Book About Leadership?......Page 12
Section 2 Putting Performance in the Picture......Page 20
2 In Search of the Leaderful Self: The Rise and Rise of the Psychological Paradigm of Leadership......Page 22
3 The Dogs that Rarely Barked: Alternative Conceptions of Leadership......Page 47
4 Performing Leadership: “is”, “as”, Enactment, Narrative and Audience......Page 72
Section 3 Enactment, Narrative and Audience......Page 94
5 Rowan Williams not Rowan Atkinson: Rituals and Performative Leadership......Page 96
6 The Warp and Weft of Organisational Life: Relationships and Performative Leadership......Page 110
7 A Beginning, a Middle and an End: Narratives in Organisations......Page 123
8 Is Anybody There? The Nature of Audiences......Page 140
Section 4......Page 164
9 Ideas of Performance in Leadership Development Programmes: Towards a New Resolution of Some Old Problems?......Page 166
10 Authenticity and the Performance of Leadership: Neither a Paradox nor a Model......Page 184
Section 5......Page 196
11 Epilogue: Theory and Research in the Performative Theory of Leadership......Page 198
References......Page 204
B......Page 226
E......Page 227
H......Page 228
L......Page 229
P......Page 230
S......Page 231
Z......Page 232