Dilemmas Of Leadership

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. Based on the well-known Manchester Method of discovery learning, this key text includes guides and maps for leadership journeys, and advice on map reading, map testing, and map-making. Through thematic organization, Rickards and Clark create order from the current chaos of leadership literature: their analytical and reflective approach reveals dilemmas of leadership that are often concealed in more descriptive treatments.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.