Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villains and Absent Friends

273 Pages·2013·1.39 MB·English

by  Jonathan Gosling

Fictional Leaders
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Fictional Leaders
Heroes, Villains and Absent Friends
Jonathan Gosling
Director,CentreforLeadershipStudies,UniversityofExeter,UK
Peter Villiers
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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
Introduction 1
1 XenophonandthePursuitofWillingObedience
byCyrustheGreat 7
LynetteMitchell
2 SharingtheSecret:JosephConradonLeadershipatSea 18
PeterVilliers
3 TheIsolationoftheSpirit:CaptainHoratio
Hornblower,RN 37
StephanieJones
4 LeadershipandMonomania:HermanMelville’sMoby-Dick 50
BurkardSievers
5 NevilShute:Pastoral 87
DavidWeir
6 ThingsFallApart:ChinuaAchebe 99
JonathanGosling
7 LeadershipandImprovisation:ABellforAdano,
byJohnHersey 113
NormanWProvizer
8 TheSilhouetteofLeadership:JamesBondand
MissMoneypenny 125
BeverleyHawkins
9 AWildSheepChase:HarukiMurakami 139
ChrisLand,MartynaS´liwaandSverreSpoelstra
10 LeadershipandExpectation:ThomasPynchon 155
PeterPelzerandPeterCase
11 Leadership:TheMadnessoftheDaybyMauriceBlanchot 166
HugoLeticheandJean-LucMoriceau
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12 LeadershipandDharma:TheIndianEpics
RamayanaandMahabharataandTheirSignificance
forLeadershipToday 182
HarshVerma
13 TheLeaderasPoet:Tennyson,WhitmanandDickinson 202
BarbaraMossberg
14 LeadershipandTradition:RabindranathTagore 215
SatishKumar
15 LeadershipandAcceptability:Platoand
theOdiumofTruth 223
NathanHarter
16 TenGreatWorksforLeadershipDevelopment 234
RobertAdlam
Index 259
Contributors
RobertAdlamretiredfromtheNationalPoliceStaffCollegeatBramshill
in Hampshire, UK, as a reader in leadership studies, having previously
directed the Special Course for many years. (This Home Office course
identifiesanddevelopspoliceofficerschosenfortheiroutstandinglead-
ership potential, from the 140,000 police officers in the UK.) He has a
PhD in police ethics from the University of Surrey and is co-author of
twobookswithPeterVilliers:PoliceLeadershipinthe21st Century(2003)
andPolicingaSafe,JustandTolerantSociety(2004).Heeditsandpublishes
onart,literature,philosophyandaesthetics.
Peter Case is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at
JamesCookUniversity,Australia.HeisalsoActingDirectoroftheBris-
tol Centre for Leadership and Organizational Ethics, Bristol Business
School, UK, and has taught the core executive MBA module ‘Business
ethicsandCSR’forLondonBusinessSchool.Heservedasgeneraleditor
ofCultureandOrganization(2007–10)andiscurrentlyamemberofthe
editorialboardsofLeadership,LeadershipandOrganizationalDevelopment
Journal, Business and Society Review and Journal of Management, Spiritu-
alityandReligion.Hisresearchinterestsencompasscorporatesocialand
environmentalresponsibility,leadershipethicsandorganizationtheory.
His publications include The Speed of Organization (with S. Lilley and
T. Owens, 2006) and John Adair: the Fundamentals of Leadership (with
J.GoslingandM.Witzel,2007).
Jonathan Gosling is Director of the University of Exeter’s Centre for
Leadership Studies. He was previously Director of the Strategic Leaders
UnitatLancasterUniversity,andheremainsChairoftheInternational
Masters in Practicing Management, a collaboration of seven business
schools around the world that share in the delivery of taught mod-
ules for experienced managers in multinational companies. The group
launched the Advanced Leadership Programme in 2002. His research
focuses on leadership and ethics in current strategic changes, and on
contemporaryinnovationsinleadershipdevelopment.Hisresearchinto
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how leaders learn from each other led to the formation of Lead2Lead,
which provides opportunities for senior directors to learn from their
peers in other companies. He is a trustee of the Fintry Trust and the
JHLevyTrust,avisitingprofessoratLancasterUniversityandanadviser
onleadershiptotheDefenceAcademy,ineffecttheUnitedServicesStaff
CollegeofthearmedforcesoftheUK.
Nathan Harter has published a range of articles on leadership, ethics
and bureaucracy, and is the author of Clearings in the Forest (2006).
In 2006–7 he chaired the section on scholarship of the International
LeadershipAssociation,andin2011hebecameProfessorofLeadership
StudiesatChristopherNewportUniversity,Virginia.
Beverley Hawkins is a lecturer in the Centre for Leadership Studies,
University of Exeter Business School. When not watching James Bond
films she is particularly interested in exploring the processes of inter-
action, both formal and informal, through which people accomplish
their work in organizations. She has published research on teamwork
andcorporatecultureaswellinthefieldofleadershipstudies.
Stephanie Jones is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at
Maastricht School of Management, teaching leadership to MBA and
doctoral students. She is particularly interested in the juxtaposition of
historyandleadership,henceherbookwithJonathanGosling,Nelson’s
Way–leadershiplessonsfromthegreatcommander.Shenamedhersailing
boatafterthefirstHornblowernovel,TheHappyReturn.
SatishKumarhasbeenaJainmonkandnucleardisarmamentadvocate,
and he is the current editor of Resurgence magazine. He is the founder
and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College International
CentreforEcologicalStudies,andoftheSmallSchoolinHartland,North
Devon. He organised a centenary festival in honour of Rabindranath
Tagore in 2012, at which all the arts to which Tagore contributed were
featured,andperformancesincludedpoetry,dance,songandtheatre.He
continues to have a wide interest in ecology and insists that reverence
fornatureshouldbeattheheartofeverypoliticalandsocialdebate.
Chris Land following a childhood in which his summers were spent
tending sheep on the Cumbrian moors, Chris Land retired from the
wilful companionship of his ovine wards to the cloistered groves of
academe to mix his metaphors and set down in writing what he had
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learned out on the fells. His contribution to this collection is one in a
series of works reflecting on transhumanism and conceptions of sub-
jectivity in the organization of social collectivities. He is paid by the
University of Essex to give ‘senior lectures’ in work and organization.
Theyareoftenlike‘seniormoments’.
HugoLeticheisProfessorofOrganizationofHealthandSocialCareat
LeicesterUniversity,UK.PreviouslyhewasResearchProfessorofMean-
ing in Organization at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek Utrecht, the
Netherlands,wherehewasadirectorofthepart-timePhDprogramme.
His current interests centre on the politics and ethics of research, and
the‘turntoaffect’.AlloftheseconcernBlanchot,whomhe(co-)writes
abouthere.
Lynette Mitchell is Associate Professor of Greek History and Politics
in theDepartmentofClassics andAncientHistoryattheUniversityof
Exeter.SheisinterestedinGreekpoliticalhistoryandthedevelopment
ofGreekpoliticalthought,especiallyinthearchaicandclassicalperiods.
She has published two monographs and three edited volumes, the last
ofwhichisonkingshipintheancientandmedievalworlds.Sheiscur-
rentlycompletingathirdmonographonrulingideologyintheancient
Greekworld:TheHeroicRulersofArchaicandClassicalGreece.
Jean-Luc Moriceau is Professor of Accountability at Telecom Busi-
ness School, France, where he is in charge of doctoral education.
He was core tutor of the part-time PhD programme of the Univer-
siteitvoorHumanistiekUtrecht,theNetherlands.Hisresearchinterests
mainly revolve around aesthetics, literature and critical management
studies.
Barbara Mossberg is President Emerita, Goddard College, Vermont;
Director and Professor of Integrated Studies at California State Univer-
sity,MontereyBay,California;andHostofthePoetryShowdownKRXA
540AM.SheiscurrentlypoetinresidenceatPoet’sPerch,MontereyBay,
California.
Peter Pelzer studied economics and philosophy. He is working as an
independentconsultantforbanksandasavisitingprofessorattheUni-
versity for Humanistics, Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is interested in
understandingtheprocessesheexperiencesduringhisprojectsbeyond
the textbook knowledge of organisation and management theory. His