The physicality of leadership : gesture, entanglement, taboo, possibilities / edited by Donna Ladkin, Steven S. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ladkin, Donna.

Taylor, Steven S., 1960-

Series:

Monographs in leadership and management ; v. 6.

Monographs in leadership and management, 1479-3571 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Body language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, [England] : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Colloquially we know that how leaders present themselves physically matters; and those taking up the leader role know this too. Otherwise why would Margaret Thatcher have insisted on standing on a step-stool when speaking publicly, or why would FDR have so carefully downplayed his reliance on his wheelchair? Yet the academic literature has to a large extent ignored this feature of leadership, relegating it to 'below the radar' or in the margins of what is considered to be a 'proper' focus of study. This volume addresses this oversight by inviting leadership scholars from around the world to inquire rigorously into the physical aspect of leading and leadership. In doing so, it brings into high relief aspects of leadership which are often ignored: its gestural and performative nature, the way our physical bodies both enable and constrain the type of leader we can be, the sheer physical demands of taking up the leading role. Most importantly, by noticing and dwelling with the visible facets of leading which are so often overlooked, the book suggests new possibilities for how leadership can be both created and studied.

Contents:

Introduction : the physicality of leadership : 'Ceci n'est pas une Pipe' / Donna Ladkin, Steven S. Taylor

Leading a group through feeling : teaching by the movement of learning / John Paul Stephens

Flying blind? Teaching aesthetic agency in an executive MBA course / Claus Springborg, Ian Sutherland

Disappearing bodies in virtual leadership? / Donatella De Paoli, Arja Ropo, Erika Sauer

To be physical is to inter-be-come : beyond empiricism and idealism towards embodied leadership that matters / Wendelin Küpers

From Mahler to the movies : physical empathy in orchestral leadership / David Gilling

Music beyond the chamber : NZTrio and embodied communities / Ralph Bathurst, Lloyd Williams

Leadership, eroticism and abjection : Star Trek and the Borg Queen / Mary Phillips

Bill Clinton and the end of leadership / Ralph Bathurst, Anne Messervy

On knees, breasts and being fully human in leadership / Amanda Sinclair

'In through the nose, out through the mouth' : how conscious breathing can help mere mortals cope with the diiificulties of leading / Donna Ladkin

Open your heart / Steven S. Taylor.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781784412890

1784412899