Leading from Example: A Short Guide to the Lessons of Literature - Softcover

Peter, Villiers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908009357 ISBN 13: 9781908009357

Publisher: Triarchy Press, 2011

Synopsis

The aim of Leading from Example is to help the reader to perform more effectively in his or her sphere of influence. This book is intended to stimulate reflective practice and to extend it beyond personal experience to learn from the experience of others. The process of falling for a character, becoming irrevocably intrigued and sympathetic, seems out of place in organizational life, where it must be juxtaposed with the norms of bureaucratic impersonality. But most organizations are awash with gossip and storytelling, much of it scurrilous. When people spend time talking about what is going on behind the closed doors of the management meeting, or what motivates their leaders, or speculating about the outcomes of a current change programme, they are creating fictions, and using them to conjure a place for themselves as both authors and characters in a constantly woven narrative. In Leading from example Peter Villiers teases out lessons for leadership using a diverse yet coherent set of readings from, among others: · Rudyard Kipling (Kim, Stalky & Co., Captains Courageous) · Jack London (The Sea Wolf) · Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls) · Joseph Conrad (The Secret Agent) · George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) · R C Sherriff (Journey's End)

About this title

About the Author

Peter Villiers was born of Australian parents in Chipping Norton, Oxon, in 1947. After attending the very traditional King's School, Canterbury and the supposedly radical University of Essex (1966- 1970), he then joined the army, serving in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Hong Kong, and learning a good deal about leadership in practice. He has worked as a college principal and police adviser and is the author of many books on leadership, ethics and human rights, as well as a marine biography of Joseph Conrad and a recent study of Gavrilo Princip, the youthful and idealistic assassin whose two shots in Sarajevo led to the First World War.

Edition details

• Publisher: Triarchy Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908009357
• ISBN 13: 9781908009357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168