This book elaborates on leadership dilemmas and solutions within real-life contexts utilizing a _systems_ perspective in which leaders and their followers co-create their mutually interdependent relationships. Included are issues of political, corporate, educational, terrorist, and diplomatic leadership.
Author(s): Robert Klein, Cecil A. Rice, Victor L. Schermer
Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: 37559
Pages: 259
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Contents......Page 8
Foreword ix......Page 10
Acknowledgments xiii......Page 14
Introduction: Co-creating In-depth Leadership for a New Millennium 1......Page 16
Part I: Concepts and Theories......Page 42
Modes of Leadership: Diplomacy, Integrity, Sincerity, and Authenticity 29......Page 44
What the “I” May See: Leadership, Identity, and Representation 49......Page 64
The Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Leadership 73......Page 88
Some Psychoanalytic Views on Leaders with Narcissistic Personality Organization and Their Roles in Large-group Processes 93......Page 108
Part II: Case Studies......Page 132
The Co-creation of Current and Prospective PoliticalLeadership in America: 9/11, the Bush Years, and the 2008 Race for the Presidency 119......Page 134
Managing Systemic and Leadership Problems in a Corporate Setting: A Case Study 141......Page 156
Lessons in Leadership and Conflict Resolution: Working with Palestinians and Israelis in a Conjoint Educational Effort 163......Page 178
“When Hatred Is Bred in the Bone”: Terrorist Group Dynamics and the Psycho-cultural Foundations of Contemporary Terrorism 185......Page 200
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace Process: The Role of Mutual Regulatory Symbiosis between Leaders and Groups 203......Page 218
Index 223......Page 238
Contributors 239......Page 254
