Fictional leaders: heroes, villans and absent friends

Are you puzzled by how to approach and resolve the leadership dilemmas which arise in your everyday experience, and for which you do not feel prepared?.Do you wish that the conventional textbook on management and leadership seemed somehow more relevant to you, and that the challenges it posed seemed, perhaps, a little more… challenging?.Why is it that we find some of the characters of fiction so engrossing?.Why do we identify with them and their dilemmas, and whydo they remain in our minds long after we have 'finished' the book in question?.We suggest that literature and the fictional leaders it contains have very much more to offer us than a 'good read,' and that this is a neglected source.Fictional Leaders contains sixteen in-depth and fascinating studies of leaders all over the world. Perhaps your favourite fictional hero, villain or absentfriend is already amongst them!. INDICE: Acknowledgments.Introduction.PART I.Cyrus the Great and the Obedience of the Willing - Xenophon's Historic Fiction; .L.Mitchell.Sharing the Secret - Joseph Conrad on Leadership at Sea; .P.Villiers.Hornblower's Lament - Captain Horatio Hornblower RN and the Isolation of Command; .S.Jones.'All my means are sane'; .B.Sievers.Pastoral; .D.Weir.'Things for fall apart'; .J.Gosling.Jopplolo's Ghost - A Bell for Adano; .N.Provizer.PART II.James Bond; .B.Hawkins.Murisami; .C.Land., .M.Sliwa.& .S.Spoelstra.Pinchon; .P.Pelzer.& .P.Case.Blanchot; .H.Lettiche.& .J-L.Moriceau.PART III.Mahayana and Ramayana; .H.Verma.Tennyson, Whitman and Dickinson;. B.Mossberg.Tagore; .S.Kumar.Plato's Apology; .N.Harter.Ten Great Works;. R.Adlam.Contributors.Index

• ISBN: 978-1-1372-7274-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 26/10/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido