Table of Contents

Introduction: The Arts of Leadership
Part I: Parallel Leadership Situations
Chapter 1: Crash Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic
Chapter 2: The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies
Chapter 3: Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals
Chapter 4: Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift
Part II: Situating Extreme Leaders
Chapter 5: Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary
Chapter 6: Horation Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero
Chapter 7: Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex
Chapter 8: Martin Luther King: The Rhetoric of Social Leadership
Chapter 9: The End of Leadership?
References

About the Author

Keith Grint is University Reader in Organizational Behaviour, Said Business School, and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour at Templeton College, University of Oxford. He worked for ten years in various industries before his academic career. Prior to his present positions he taught at Brunel University for six years.

Reviews

... this is a masterful book of its sort ... Grint makes his case consistently and persuasively ... This is an excellent book that deserves to be considered as one of the reference points in the contemporary literature on leadership. Organization Studies This book makes for thoroughly digestible reading. Management Theory with a difference. Ben Maclennan, Leadership Well written ... truly a voyage of remarkable insight into comparative success and failure situations in different contexts ... It is steeped in social and political history, which makes it unique and, for any managers who are students of history, a wonderful excursion ... fascinating, illuminating and absorbing. Cary Cooper, Times Higher Educational Supplement 31/01/2001