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FOLLOWING REASON Throughout history, humanity has regularly followed anti-rational figures and forces: demagogic rulers, perverted deities, exploitative economic systems, and so on. Such leadership and followership have wrought all kinds of oppression and conflict. What if this pattern could be altered? What if society were led by Reason instead? Prompted by Cicero’s exhortation to “follow reason as leader as though it were a god”, Following Reason: A Theory and Strategy for Rational Leadership explores this intriguing and potentially transformative possibility. Manolopoulosuniquelyblendsleadershippsychologywithadeepunderstanding of philosophical reasoning theory to show how leaders can bravely reimagine and reconstructsociety.Thebookretracesleadershipmis-stepsinhistory,andproposesa more “logicentric” theory of leadership built on compelling philosophical axioms andarguments.FollowingReasonemphasizestheweightofphilosophyandcognition in leadership, and advocates for a diverse network that can create, uphold, and implementablueprintforabetterglobalsociety. This wide-ranging and timely book is ideal for leadership, management, and philosophy students at undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr Mark Manolopoulos is a Research Associate in Philosophy at Monash University, and a former Research Fellow at Swinburne University’s Leadership Institute. He is the author of Radical Neo-Enlightenment (2018), If Creation is a Gift (2009), editor of With Gifted Thinkers (2009), and author of numerous scholarly journal articles and op-ed pieces. LEADERSHIP: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Series Editors Georgia Sorenson, Ph.D, Møller Leadership Scholar and Møller By-Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Founder of the James MacGregor Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, and co-founder of the International Leadership Association. Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. College Student Leadership Development Valerie I. Sessa Exploring Distance in Leader-Follower Relationships When Near is Far and Far is Near Edited by Michelle C. Bligh and Ronald E. Riggio Women’s Leadership Journeys Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives Edited by Sherylle J. Tan and Lisa DeFrank-Cole Snapshots of Great Leadership Second Edition Jon P. Howell and Isaac Wanasika What’s Wrong with Leadership? (And How to Fix It) Edited by Ronald E. Riggio Following Reason: A Theory and Strategy for Rational Leadership Mark Manolopoulos For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/psychology/series/LEADERSHIP FOLLOWING REASON A Theory and Strategy for Rational Leadership Mark Manolopoulos Firstpublished2019 byRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 andbyRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2019Taylor&Francis TherightofMarkManolopoulostobeidentifiedasauthorofthisworkhas beenassertedbyhiminaccordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Manolopoulos,Mark,1968-author. Title:Followingreason:atheoryandstrategyforrationalleadership/Mark Manolopoulos. Description:FirstEdition.|NewYork:Routledge,2019.| Series:Leadership:Researchandpractice|Includesbibliographicalreferences. Identifiers:LCCN2018050745(print)|LCCN2018060885(ebook)|ISBN 9781315542058(Ebook)|ISBN9781138650572(hardback)|ISBN 9781138650589(pbk.) Subjects:LCSH:Leadership.|Psychology,Applied. Classification:LCCBF637.L4(ebook)|LCCBF637.L4M2662019(print)| DDC303.3/4--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018050745 ISBN:978-1-138-65057-2(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-65058-9(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-54205-8(ebk) TypesetinBembo byTaylor&FrancisBooks For Reason’s martyrs This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments viii Series Editor Foreword ix Introduction: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1 Defining Leading 8 Differentiating Leading from Managing 33 Foregrounding Following 53 Rethinking Reason as Leader 72 Faithfully Following Reason 97 References 136 Index 150 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As often happens with defining moments, the origins of this book were rather random: when I commenced working as a Research Fellow at Swinburne University’s Leadership Institute, I decided to enter the words “Reason” and “leader” into the Google search engine. I had no idea what to expect. I can’t recall how many “hits” I received. I don’t think there were many – which is itself rather telling. But the most relevant entry, the one that immediately caught my attention, referred to a line from a book by the Roman philosopher Cicero. It simply stated – as if out-of-hand, without any fanfare or lead-up: “follow reason as leader as though it were a god.” This book is a result of that serendipitous discovery. So the first person I would like to thank is Cicero, whose ten little words opened up a wondrous path for me to joyfully wander. Second,Iwishtothankthepeopleassociatedwiththisproject.Firstofall,there are the Series Editors of Leadership: Research and Practice, Georgia Sorenson and Ron Riggio. I’m very grateful they encouraged me to foster my inkling that Cicero’s apparently forgotten proposition might be ripe for exploration. I’m alsoverythankfulforhavinganEditorlikeChristinaChronister,andIalsowish to extend my gratitude to the rest of the staff at Routledge/Taylor & Francis who have been involved in the work’s production, including Editorial Assistant Charlotte Mapp. They have all been impressively supportive of this project, nurturing it with a relatively rare – and much-appreciated – positivity and kindness. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewer for their incisive (and also encouraging) feedback: the book is much better for it. Finally, I wish to thank my familyand friends for their love and understanding, particularlymy wife, Paula. SERIES EDITOR FOREWORD Welivetodayinaworldofdivisionsand“alternativefacts”–anincreasinglypolar- ized society divided along racial, religious, national, political, and ideological lines. Much of this is due to irrational and non-logical thinking. In this book, Mark Manolopoulos explores what rational leadership would look like, and discusses the positivetransformationsthatwouldoccurwithqualityleadership.Inthisinteresting and deep analysis of leadership, Manolopoulos takes on some of the fundamental questionsthatleadershipscholarshavedebatedfordecades.Itisamust-readforany scholarorpractitionerwhowantstotakea“deepdive”intothedynamicsofleaders andleadership. Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College Georgia Sorenson, Churchill College, University of Cambridge