A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Leadership

By B. Jackson, K. Parry. 2008

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Should You Buy This Book? Introduction Why Studying Leadership Matters Leader-Centered Perspectives on Leadership Follower-Centered Perspectives on Leadership Cultural Perspectives on Leadership Critical and Distributed Perspectives on Leadership Leadership with a Higher Purpose Conclusion Take Your Lead Appendix Resources for Studying Leadership

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• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Identity and Well-Being in Sensemaking About Retention and Turnover (2017, methodology): “Sensegiving has been applied to other issues in organizations (Sonenshein et al., 2014; Weick, 1995) and is part of some models of ideal leadership, including transformational and spiritual leadership (Jackson & Parry, 2011).”
• Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies (2019, background): “If people in powerful positions are not of the true grit, they are not really leaders, but something else: tyrants, inauthentic, simple managers and so on (Burns, 1978; Jackson & Parry, 2008).”
• Studying Leadership Critically: A Psychosocial Lens on Leadership Identities (2010, background): “These studies fail to recognize that almost all managers are also sub - ordinates and thus have a hierarchy above themselves as well as below (Alvesson, 2002; Alvesson & Sveningsson, 2003; Fletcher, 2004; Fournier & Grey, 2000; Jackson & Parry, 2008; Watson, 2001).”