Leadership across boundaries : a passage to aporia / Nathan Harter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harter, Nathan, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Leadership: research and practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Leadership--Case studies.

Leadership--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Surrounded by Icons: Seeing Through Images p. 18

Images as Intermediate Symbols p. 20

The Role of Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences p. 25

The Role of Metaphor and Analogy in Describing and Also Creating Reality p. 27

Leadership Studies as a Bevy of Dichotomies p. 28

A Sample Dichotomy: Isaiah Berlin on Idealistic and Realistic Leadership p. 31

Preparing for the First Extended Example p. 35

2 Leader in Context: Martin Luther Translating the Bible Into German p. 36

Biographical Sketch of Luther p. 37

A Man in Contexts p. 37

Translating the Christian Bible Into German p. 43

3 Studying the Whole Within Which Leadership Takes Place: Social Action and Spontaneous Order p. 52

Conducting Research Into Complex Phenomena p. 54

What Is Meant by Complex Phenomena? p. 56

Unintended Consequences p. 58

I Person, 1 Role, 1 Culture p. 59

I Person, 2 Roles, 1 Culture p. 59

I Person, 1 Role, 2 Cultures p. 60

Leadership in Context... What Context? p. 61

What Is Spontaneous Order? p. 63

The Relationship Between Social Action and Spontaneous Order p. 66

Preparing for the Second Extended Example p. 69

4 The Emergent Order of the Common Law

How Does the Common Law Work? p. 72

Who Is the Leader Under the Common Law? p. 76

Professionals, Experts, and Ordinary Folks p. 79

5 Macro/Micro Perspectives: A Basic Dichotomy Holding Us Back

The Original Challenge p. 89

Durkheim Explains Why Social Facts Are Explained Only by Social Facts p. 91

Reconsidering a Basic Dichotomy: Macro/Micro (and Also Meta) p. 93

The Agent-Structure Problem p. 95

6 Being at the Center of Tensions: Las Meninas p. 103

Finding the Pin-point Impulse p. 104

The Painting Las Meninas p. 106

Seeing Behind the Image, in a Retrocession p. 109

Genuine Solitude p. 111

The Lesson Within the Lesson p. 114

The Individual Still Matters p. 115

The Existentialism of Ortega p. 116

7 Leadership as a Mode of Participation in History: A Peregrinal Image p. 120

Leadership as a Mode of Participation p. 121

Flow: An Image for History p. 126

Braudel on History Among the Human Sciences p. 133

What This Means p. 136

8 Dialogue as a Mode of Participation

What Do I Mean by a Dialogue? p. 139

Plato at the Heart of It All p. 147

Objections to Dialogue p. 151

Who Is the Leader of a Dialogue? p. 152

Preparation for the Next Chapter p. 153

9 Oscillations, Chaos, and Sync (Oh My!) p. 155

The Experience of Synchrony p. 157

The Processes Behind Social Synchrony p. 165

Using a Morphogenetic Toolkit p. 169

The X Factor p. 171

10 Turbulence as the Shape of Things to Come p. 173

The Terms "Chaos" and "Turbulence" p. 174

For Our Purposes, Then, What Is Turbulence? p. 176

Leadership and Turbulence p. 177

The Sense of Fitness Emanating From the Hippocampus p. 181

Turbulence in and Among Open Systems p. 184

11 Making Sense in the Turbulence: Leadership Homeward p. 190

The Goddess Nyx, Freud's "Death Instinct" p. 194

The Omega Point and Sankofa p. 198

Populism in a Time of Complexity p. 199

Recursive Patterns p. 201

All Chapters End p. 205

12 Making Use of the Turbulence: Extra-Ordinary Leadership p. 207

Life as More Life and as More-Than-Life p. 207

Patocka on Casting Possibilities p. 211

Concord and Liberty; Order and Freedom p. 213

What Does "Extra-Ordinary" Mean? p. 214

Influx as a Metaphor p. 216

Calling a Stranger to Lead p. 219

One Chapter Closes, Another One Opens p. 223

13 Embracing Aporias, Suffering, and Death: The Leadership of St. Francis p. 224

Context for Francis of Assisi p. 225

Francis of Assisi p. 226

The Leadership of St. Francis p. 231

What Is a Saint? p. 233

Suffering and Death p. 236

Implications of the Leadership of Francis p. 237

14 Arriving at Port: Mediation and Aikido Politics p. 240

A Thumbnail Sketch of Aikido and Mediation p. 241

Principles of Aikido and Mediation p. 243

Aikido Politics p. 246

Living Within Tensions p. 249

Looking Back, Yet Moving Forward (i.e. Sankqfa) p. 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Print version: Harter, Nathan. Leadership across boundaries

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