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Fictional Leaders

Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends

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Authors:
  1. Jonathan Gosling

    1. Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Peter Villiers
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonathan Gosling, Peter Villiers
    Pages 1-6

  3. Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great

    • Lynette Mitchell
    Pages 7-17

  4. Sharing the Secret: Joseph Conrad on Leadership at Sea

    • Peter Villiers
    Pages 18-36

  5. The Isolation of the Spirit: Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN

    • Stephanie Jones
    Pages 37-49

  6. Leadership and Monomania: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick

    • Burkard Sievers
    Pages 50-86

  7. Nevil Shute: Pastoral

    • David Weir
    Pages 87-98

  8. Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe

    • Jonathan Gosling
    Pages 99-112

  9. Leadership and Improvisation: A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey

    • Norman W. Provizer
    Pages 113-124

  10. The Silhouette of Leadership: James Bond and Miss Moneypenny

    • Beverley Hawkins
    Pages 125-138

  11. A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami

    • Chris Land, Martyna Sliwa, Sverre Spoelstra
    Pages 139-154

  12. Leadership and Expectation: Thomas Pynchon

    • Peter Pelzer, Peter Case
    Pages 155-165

  13. Leadership: The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot

    • Hugo Letiche, Jean-Luc Moriceau
    Pages 166-181

  14. Leadership and Dharma: The Indian Epics Ramayana and Mahabharata and Their Significance for Leadership Today

    • Harsh Verma
    Pages 182-201

  15. The Leader as Poet: Tennyson, Whitman and Dickinson

    • Barbara Mossberg
    Pages 202-214

  16. Leadership and Tradition: Rabindranath Tagore

    • Satish Kumar
    Pages 215-222

  17. Leadership and Acceptability: Plato and the Odium of Truth

    • Nathan Harter
    Pages 223-233

  18. Ten Great Works for Leadership Development

    • Robert Adlam
    Pages 234-258

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 259-261
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About this book

Management theory is vague about the experience of leading. Success, power, achievement are discussed but less focus is given to negative experiences leaders faced such as loneliness or disappointment. This book addresses difficult-to-explore aspects of leadership through well-known works of literature drawing lessons from fictional leaders.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, UK

    Jonathan Gosling

About the authors

Jonathan Gosling is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, and has published articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Leadership, Management Learning and elsewhere. He advises companies, agencies and government departments across the world on their leadership-related issues. He is Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust and the Leadership Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Defence Academy, co-director of the European Leadership Centre and director of Coaching Ourselves Inc.

Peter Villiers is a writer, lecturer and consultant with a wealth of practical experience in leadership and management development. He has served in the merchant navy, as a captain in the Royal Armoured Corps in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Hong Kong and as the principal of a leading tutorial college. From 1986 to 2004 he was a senior tutor at the UK National Police Staff College, where his final position was as the head of human rights. He is a widely published author and has written textbooks, histories, guides, biographies and plays.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fictional Leaders

  • Book Subtitle: Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends

  • Authors: Jonathan Gosling, Peter Villiers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272751

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27274-4Published: 14 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44498-4Published: 01 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27275-1Published: 14 November 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 261

  • Topics: Management, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership

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