The physicality of leadership gesture, entanglement, taboo, possibilities

Colloquially we know that how leaders present themselves physically matters; and those taking up the leader role know this too. Otherwise why would Margaret Thatcher have insisted on standing on a step-stool when speaking publicly, or why would FDR have so carefully downplayed his reliance on his wh...

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Other Authors Ladkin, Donna, Taylor, Steven S., 1960-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesMonographs in leadership and management ; v. 6.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784412890
ISSN1479-3571 ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-357120146
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 256 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the physicality of leadership : 'Ceci n'est pas une Pipe' / Donna Ladkin, Steven S. Taylor
  • Leading a group through feeling : teaching by the movement of learning / John Paul Stephens
  • Flying blind? Teaching aesthetic agency in an executive MBA course / Claus Springborg, Ian Sutherland
  • Disappearing bodies in virtual leadership? / Donatella De Paoli, Arja Ropo, Erika Sauer
  • To be physical is to inter-be-come : beyond empiricism and idealism towards embodied leadership that matters / Wendelin Küpers
  • From Mahler to the movies : physical empathy in orchestral leadership / David Gilling
  • Music beyond the chamber : NZTrio and embodied communities / Ralph Bathurst, Lloyd Williams
  • Leadership, eroticism and abjection : Star Trek and the Borg Queen / Mary Phillips
  • Bill Clinton and the end of leadership / Ralph Bathurst, Anne Messervy
  • On knees, breasts and being fully human in leadership / Amanda Sinclair
  • 'In through the nose, out through the mouth' : how conscious breathing can help mere mortals cope with the diiificulties of leading / Donna Ladkin
  • Open your heart / Steven S. Taylor.