After Leadership (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research) - 9781138087811

Leadership studies today resembles a bewildering diversity of theories, concepts, constructs and approaches, struggling in huge part for meaning, relevance and impact. As Dennis Tourish so eloquently puts it much of the literature suffers from "unrelenting triviality" and "sterile preoccupations". Seeking to create a clean break from this current state of leadership studies, After Leadershipbegins with the premise of a post-apocalyptic world where only fragments of 'leadership science' now remain, echoing Alisdair McIntyre's imagining of such a scene as the basis for re-establishing the foundations and focus of moral theory. From these fragments, the authors seek to construct new leadership studies that challenges much of the established thinking on leadership, exposes its limitations and biases, and, most importantly, seek to construct the foundations of a more inclusive, participatory and bold relational and social platform for leadership in the future. After Leadershipthus imagines a brave new world where what leadership is and what we seek from it can be developed anew, rather than remaining bound up in the problematic traditions and preoccupations that characterise leadership studies today. Offering both full length chapter explorations that explore new ways of understanding and practicing leadership, as well as shorter essays that aim to provoke further reflection on leadership and what we seek of it, After Leadershipoffers a uniquely critically and creative collection that will inspire students, scholars, and leadership educators to reconsider their understanding and practice of leadership.

• | Author: Brigid Carroll, Josh Firth, Suze Wilson
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 05, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138087815
• | ISBN-13: 9781138087811