The Arts of Leadership
Keith Grint
Format: Paperback, 452pp.
ISBN: 9780199244898
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pub. Date: July 2001
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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:
Are leaders born or made? Do they have particular traits or are we all potential leaders? Keith Grint examines the notion of leadership as an array of 'arts' in a series of rich essay portraits of some of the most famous, and infamous, leaders (for example Florence Nightingale, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Horatio Nelson, Adolf Hitler, and Martin Luther King). With scenarios drawn from across the spectrum to include business, politics, society, and the military, this book will be of interest to anyone curious about the nature and function of leadership.

Reviews
Well written ... truly a voyage of remarkable insight into comparative success and failure situations in different contexts ... It is steeped in social and political history, which makes it unique and, for any managers who are students of history, a wonderful excursion. ... fascinating, illuminating and absorbing
—Cary Cooper, THES

About the Author
Keith Grint is University Reader in Organizational Behavior, Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organizational Behavior, Templeton College, University of Oxford. He worked for ten years in various industries before his academic career. Prior to his present positions he taught at Brunel University for six years.

Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Arts of Leadership | 1 |
| Part I: Parallel Leadership Situations | |
| 1 | Crash Landing and Take-Off: Business Leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic | 35 |
| 2 | The Floating Republics: Political Leadership in the Spithead and Nore Mutinies | 71 |
| 3 | Nursing the Media: Social Leadership in the Crimean and English Hospitals | 106 |
| 4 | Scarlet and Black: Military Leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift | 156 |
| Part II: Situating Extreme Leaders | |
| 5 | Henry Ford: The Blind Business Visionary | 187 |
| 6 | Horatio Nelson: Determining the Indeterminate Military Hero | 225 |
| 7 | Adolf Hitler: The Political Emotionasaurus Rex | 289 |
| 8 | Martin Luther King: The Rhetoric of Social Leadership | 359 |
| 9 | The End of Leadership? | 409 |
| References | 421 |
| Index | 433 |

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