Performing Leadership by Peck, Edward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Performing Leadership

Contents List of Boxes, Tables and Figures Section 1

1 Prologue: Why Write Another Book About Leadership?

A short history of how we come to be here Sensemaking and NDIT Clarifying our use of “performance” Structure of book Who is this book for? Acknowledgements

Section 2 Putting Performance in the Picture

Introduction 2 In Search of the Leaderful Self: The Rise and Rise of the Psychological Paradigm of Leadership

Evolution of leadership studies “Great man” leadership Early situational approaches Psychological profiling Behavioural approaches Transformational leadership Leadership theory and leadership development practice Leadership and the pre-eminence of the psychological paradigm

3 The Dogs that Rarely Barked: Alternative Conceptions of Leadership

Introduction Essentialism Leaders, followers and relationships Self and identity Leadership, context, culture and social structure What does this all mean for leadership?

4 Performing Leadership: “is”, “as”, Enactment, Narrative and Audience

Introduction Postmodernism Social constructionism Sensemaking Sensemaking theories of leadership Performing leadership

Section 3 Enactment, Narrative and Audience

Introduction 5 Rowan Williams not Rowan Atkinson: Rituals and Performative Leadership

Introduction Leadership “is” performance Formal meetings and leader authority – the Challenger example Formal meetings and leader authority – the van Gogh example Emotional tone and leadership authority

6 The Warp and Weft of Organisational Life: Relationships and Performative Leadership

Introduction Leadership “as” performance Interaction and iteration – four short examples Emotion and everyday interactions

7 A Beginning, a Middle and an End: Narratives in Organisations

Introduction The structural form of stories Myths in organisations Organisational discourse Narrative and performing leadership

8 Is Anybody There? The Nature of Audiences

Introduction Cultural studies, TV and film Marketing and advertising Performance studies Political science: applause and booing Audience, authority and leadership

Section 4

9 Ideas of Performance in Leadership Development Programmes: Towards a New Resolution of Some Old Problems?

Initial survey of perceptions of leadership Enactment Narrative Audience Reviewing the interventions as a whole The implications for the three issues

What does this programme tell us about performing leadership?

10 Authenticity and the Performance of Leadership: Neither a Paradox nor a Model

The apparent paradox of performing authenticity Authentic leaders: the new priesthood in organisational life? The problems with authentic leadership Authenticity, emotion and leadership Authenticity: no paradox and no model

Section 5

11 Epilogue: Theory and Research in the Performative Theory of Leadership

Beyond sensemaking … Researching performance

References Index