Leadership: Limits and possibilities

by Keith Grint, Owain Smolovic Jones

Overview

Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of leadership and through this debate suggests possible ways to improve as a leader. It is structured around 5 key aspects of leadership: person, product, position, process and purpose, providing a useful organizing framework. It combines theoretical discussions with lively examples to bring the subject alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350328525
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/29/2022
Series:	Management, Work and Organisations
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University, where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018.

Owain Smolovic-Jones is Director of the Open University's Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures academic centre of excellence and a leadership scholar.

Table of Contents

Introduction
What is leadership: person, result, position or process?
Leadership as person: putting the "ship" back into "leader-ship"
Leadership as results: putting the subjunctive back where it belongs
Leadership as process: leadership as a reflection of community
Leadership as position: hydras and elephants in space
Leadership as purpose: what is the point?