Leadership Across Boundaries
Leadership Across Boundaries: A Passage to Aporia. Nathan Harter. New York: Routledge, 2020. The title of Nathan Harter’s latest book aptly captures its driving theme as…
Questions About a Person-Centered Leadership
James MacGregor Burns concluded his 1978 classic on Leadership by stating, "In real life the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns,…
Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia
Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia. Scott C. Beardsley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. According to Beardsley, a revolution is taking place…
Interdisciplinary Notes Toward a Definition of “Crisis Leadership”
Every leadership episode is unique, and we would do well to appreciate each contingent, concrete feature (Wren, 2012). We do have to notice, for example, the prevailing…
The Elements of Leadership: Might, Measure, and Meaning
The philosopher Eric Voegelin labored for many years in relative obscurity until his death in 1985. Even now his disciples are drawn largely from conservative academe, which…
Leadership as a Political Process
There is a common implication, in scholarly as well as popular literature, that although the leadership process may sometimes be political in nature the best leadership is…
Leadership and Machiavelli
Scholars, practitioners, and more casual observers of leadership often talk about Niccolo Machiavelli in the context of leadership practices. Substantially fewer seem to be well read on…
Tocqueville, Weber, and Democracy: The Condition of Equality and the Possibility of Charisma in America
Both Tocqueville and Weber confronted the injection of mass suffrage into the liberal democratic polity with trepidation and caution but for different reasons: for Tocqueville, democracy produced…