35 Getting rid of the L-word Are our best aspirations for “leadership” not leadership at all?
Introduction
This chapter proposes a radical critique of leadership scholarship as a discipline. It asks what purpose leadership serves in addressing the major issues we currently face and whether a new focus on stewardship could usefully replace the now debased currency of leadership, with its inescapably capitalist cultural baggage. Banerjee and Arjaliès (2021) question whether Enlightenment thinking – including leadership's harnessing of the human-nature dualism to claim control over resources and production capabilities in the name of shareholders – is a sound basis for solutions to the very problems ...
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