Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415568455 ISBN 13: 9780415568456

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Title: Metaphors We Lead by <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Alvesson, Mats <>Publisher: Taylor & Francis

About this title

Review:

'Rarely is academic writing so insightful, useful and amusing at once.'

Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD, France

'This insightful work is a valuable contribution to the study of leadership. It is a must for university business collections, and merits inclusion as collateral reading in academic and professional leadership-related courses of study.'

J. B. Kashner, CHOICE

'A sophisticated and critical analysis of 'leadership' metaphors that pushes the boundaries well beyond the conventional. There are lots of books on leadership but there aren't many books like this - read it!'

Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership & Management, Warwick Business School, UK

'This highly engaging book compellingly shows what a critically-oriented approach can do to not only invigorate the field of leadership studies but also to constructively assist leaders (and followers) make sense of and act authentically in a world in which is leadership is over-hyped yet widely misunderstood.'

Professor Brad Jackson, Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

About the Author:

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at the Lund University, Sweden. He is also affiliated with University of Queensland Business School.  Another of his recent books, Changing Organizational Culture, is also available from Routledge.

André Spicer is an Associate Professor of Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Lund, Sweden. His recent publications (as co-author) include Unmasking the Entrepreneur and Understanding Corporate Life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415568455
• ISBN 13: 9780415568456
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Alvesson Mats