Dilemmas of Leadership

Leadership, as a way of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students.
Building on the success of the first edition, this text utilises an easy to follow, map-based approach to take the reader on a journey through the various fundamental dilemmas apparent within leadership studies, dilemmas such as:

Is a leader born or made?
How are tensions between ethical dilemmas and economic self-interest resolved?
How does a leader's desire for control balance with the need to empower members of the organization?
Student-friendly features new to this edition include a wealth of leadership cases, videos and web-based content regularly updated, so that the book can be studied in the context of the most pressing contemporary leadership issues.

Tudor Rickards is Professor Emeritus at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He previously worked at New York Medical College and as a manager within Unilever plc. He has published and lectured extensively on leadership, creativity, and change management, and is a co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Creativity (Routledge 2009)

Introduction 1. Leadership Journeys, Dilemmas and Maps 2. Born or Made? Dilemmas of Destiny and Development 3. Project Teams and the Dilemmas of Functional Leadership 4. Charisma: Ancient and Modern Versions 5. Shared Meanings and Why Myths Matter: Mapping the Symbolic and the Cultural 6. Dilemmas of Trust, Competence and Vulnerability 7. Strategic Leadership: Do Strategic Leaders Matter? 8. Dilemmas of Power, Discrimination and Diversity 9. Ethical Dilemmas 10. Creativity and Leadership: Dilemmas of Dreams, Denial and Change Management 11. Emerging Issues and Dilemmas