4 What critical leadership studies can learn from (reading) Plato
Introduction
Calls for leadership inevitably become louder in times of crisis. The identification of a crisis sets off the search for an emergency exit, and leadership discourse traditionally suggests that we should turn to a single person to help us find a way out (Spector, 2019). This extraordinary figure, imbued with extraordinary qualities, is typically thought of as having a special capacity for bringing together a group of self-interested individuals as a coherent community, often rallying them around a compelling vision of the future (Nanus, 1992). Scholars sometimes refer to such a notion of leadership as ...
Get The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
