The Role of Imagination in Understanding Leadership

The Forgotten Dimension

Nathan W. Harter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

154 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-44986-9 (ISBN)

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This book presents a series of fascinating investigations into the role that the imagination plays in studying and practicing leadership. It explains how using the imagination is integral to both the study and practice of leadership itself.

Each study presented began as distinct and conceptually separable and is eloquently tied together by the author through the lens of imagination. This volume outlines the role of the imagination in understanding (a) one’s self, as well as other people, (b) the social groups to which one belongs, (c) the dynamics by which these groups change, (d) the conceptual structures we use to determine boundaries, and (e) the role of ritual ceremonies such as legislative committee hearings. In so doing, it offers novel insights that will encourage the reader to consider their own understanding and study of leadership.

The Role of Imagination in Understanding Leadership will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the field of Leadership Studies, including graduate students studying leadership.

Nathan W. Harter has taught Leadership Studies since 1989, when he began at Purdue University in the State of Indiana. Today, he serves at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He is the author of several books, numerous articles, and book chapters on leadership.

1. On the powers and pitfalls of the imagination

2. Fictions in the study of leadership: Applying the philosophy of “as if”

3. Homo ludens on motorbikes: Negotiating play in George Romero’s Knightriders

4. The imago of leadership

5. Artifex, exemplar, and guide: Using metaphors of the labyrinth in leadership studies

6. Following as imitation: Recovering the sociology of Gabriel Tarde

7. Making distinctions: Hazel and Hawthorn

8. Lights, camera, action: The ceremonial function of hearings and trials

9. Coda: The emergent beauty of authentic leadership

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	462 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-032-44986-1 / 1032449861
ISBN-13	978-1-032-44986-9 / 9781032449869
Zustand	Neuware