Against all odds : leadership and The handmaid's tale

The problems we face in the second decade of the twenty-first century are too significant to be solved by a few chosen heroes. Consequently, the role of leadership educators and authors extends beyond encouraging "natural leaders" to accept the leadership call. Instead, our role is to insp...

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Main Author Wildermuth, Cris (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
SeriesExploring effective leadership practices through popular culture
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804553367
DOI10.1108/9781804553343
Physical Description1 online resource (196 pages)

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490 0 |a Exploring effective leadership practices through popular culture 
500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Introduction: A Group of Women Near the Border PART I: BEING A LEADER -- Chapter 1. Introducing Leadership -- Chapter 2. Leadership Trait Theories -- Chapter 3. The Portrait of a Leader -- Chapter 4. Leadership and Power -- Chapter 5. Followership PART II: THE ROLES WE PLAY -- Chapter 6. The Roles We Play -- Chapter 7. The Gilead Ceiling PART III: COMPLEXITY AND CRISIS -- Chapter 8. The Gilead System -- Chapter 9. Ordinary People as Leaders -- Chapter 10. It Takes a Village -- Chapter 11. Times of Change PART IV: THE GILEAD DILEMMA -- Chapter 12. How do you solve a problem like Gilead? -- Chapter 13. Who is a moral leader? -- Chapter 14. Moral Courage PART V: MOVING FORWARD -- Chapter 15. Passing the Baton Conclusion: Could it Happen Again? 
520 |a The problems we face in the second decade of the twenty-first century are too significant to be solved by a few chosen heroes. Consequently, the role of leadership educators and authors extends beyond encouraging "natural leaders" to accept the leadership call. Instead, our role is to inspire all global citizens to take the baton when needed. Against All Odds explores leadership through the lens of the characters from HULU's TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and the original novel by Margaret Atwood, alongside Atwood's more recent sequel The Testaments (2019), analyzing the ethical dimensions of leadership. In particular, Wildermuth highlights the roles and responsibilities of leaders without authority during times of change and uncertainty. Each chapter of the book uses characters and storylines from the world of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments to help the reader connect theories, practices, and consequences of leaders' actions. Against All Odds reinforces the key message that leadership is not the job of a few but the responsibility of all, prompting all leaders to reflect on and improve their own approaches. Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analyzing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers. 
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