„One of the most refreshing, insightful and thought-provoking bookson leadership. This intelligent treatment opens up many new linesof inquiry and offers many new theoretical and practical insights.“John Storey, The Open University Business School
„This is a book for leaders, and for those of us who watchour leaders with appreciation, distaste, empathy, and frustration. Professor March shakes the foundations of how we think aboutleadership... This book will not offer you six easy steps tobecoming an effective leader, but it will provoke, amuse, challenge, and irritate you. It will force you to think aboutleadership in ways that will destroy your innocence.“Joanne Martin, Stanford University
In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, andhere translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation bynoted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar JamesMarch uses great works of literature to explore the problems ofleadership.
* Uses great works of literature to explore the problems ofleadership, for example War and Peace, Othello, and DonQuixote.
* Presents moral dilemmas related to leadership, for example thebalance between private life and public duties, and between theexpression and the control of sexuality.
* Encourages readers to explore ideas that are sometimessubversive and unpalatable but may allow organizations to adapt ina rapidly changing world.
