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1. INTRODUCTION: EXPLORING LEADERSHIP ; Not Another Book on Leadership! ; Leadership: The Panacea Of Our Times? ; Changing Perspectives on Leadership ; Studying Leadership ; Dissatisfaction With Leadership and Management Theory and Education ; Reframing Leadership Studies ; Chapter Summary ; 2. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; The Contested Nature of Leadership ; Philosophical Origins of Contemporary Leadership Theory ; Leadership Is Sexy And Management Is Boring... Or Are They? ; Contemporary Theories of Leadership ; So, What Is Leadership? ; Chapter Summary ; 3. INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; Leadership and Personality: What are leaders LIKE? ; Leadership Styles and Behaviours: What do leaders DO? ; Leadership and Identity: Who do you Think you are? ; Keeping It Real: The implications of authentic leadership ; Are You Sitting Comfortably? Leaders as storytellers ; Leading From the Heart? Leadership and emotions ; Just another Set of Traits? Critiques of authentic and emotionally intelligent leadership ; Chapter Summary ; 4. ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; Leadership and Organizational Performance ; Leadership and Power ; Leadership Competencies: The science of leadership ; Setting the Direction: Strategic leadership ; Rites, Rituals and Belonging: Leadership and organizational culture ; Setting the Scene: Putting leadership into context ; Researching Leadership in Organizations ; Chapter Summary ; 5. SOCIETAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP ; Being One Of Us: Leading in communities ; Being Global, Being Local, and Being Worldly ; Saving Our Planet and Ourselves: Leading for sustainability ; Beauty and Aesthetics in Leadership: Cultural leadership ; When Leadership Isnt the Answer ; Chapter Summary ; 6. EMERGING PERSPECTIVES AND ENDURING DILEMMAS IN LEADERSHIP ; Why Cant a Woman Behave Like a Man? Leadership and gender ; Leaders Make Me Sick! Leadership and toxicity ; Being Absent, Being Present: Leadership in a virtual world ; The Social Responsibility of Business is... Leadership and morality ; Leading into a Meaningful Future: Leadership and spirituality ; Chapter Summary ; 7. CONCLUSION: WHERE NEXT FOR LEADERSHIP STUDIES? ; Leadership, Society and the Next Ten Years ; Preparing For an Uncertain Future ; Many Perspectives but No Right Way of Looking at Leadership ; Rerouting Our Enquiries ; Moving Forward With an Eye on The Past ; Chapter Summary

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