Considering leadership anew : a handbook on alternative leadership theory

For years now, leadership studies have emphasized functional social psychology approaches that reduce leadership to a couple of traits, styles, or recipes that supposedly give us the steps to follow when leading. The latter have taught us a lot, but are not enough to cope with the immense challenges of leading in a chaotic, intricate, complex and nonsensical world. This book compiles essays on alternative leadership theory from leading authors who have been defending unorthodox approaches to leadership. As such, it provides students, academics and researchers with options in terms of leadership theory. If mainstream approaches to leadership are not enough, then why do we not look for novel and different ones? Thus, this book is an effort to develop sui generis leadership theory, by exploring leadership from novel lenses from the arts and humanities, sciences, and sociology, as well as other social sciences. Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Leadership and Considering Leadership Anew • Gerardo Abreu Pederzini List of Abbreviations 1 Leadership and Neurobiological Development • Ellen A. Ahlness and Akmal Abdulmuminov 2 Leadership and Technology • Richard H.G. Field Leadership and the Lens of a Profession • Edward W. Miles, A.J. Corner, and Jeff Schatten 3 Leadership and the Lens of a Profession • Edward W. Miles, A.J. Corner, and Jeff Schatten 4 Leadership and Women in Higher Educationb • Deborah Delaney and Heather Stewart 5 Leadership and the Art of the Invisible • Leah Tomkins 6 Leadership and Virtues • Mario de Marchis Pareschi 7 Leadership and the Collective • Renato Souza 8 (Educational) Leadership and Pharmakon • Richard Niesche 9 Leadership and Big History • Gerardo Abreu Pederzini 10 Leadership and Schizoanalysis • Sideeq Mohammed List of Contributors Index