The Role of Imagination in Understanding Leadership

This book presents a series of fascinating investigations into the role that the imagination plays in studying and practicing leadership. It explains how using the imagination is integral to both the study and practice of leadership itself.

Nathan W. Harter has taught Leadership Studies since 1989, when he began at Purdue University in the State of Indiana. Today, he serves at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He is the author of several books, numerous articles, and book chapters on leadership.

1. On the powers and pitfalls of the imagination 2. Fictions in the study of leadership: Applying the philosophy of "as if" 3. Homo ludens on motorbikes: Negotiating play in George Romero's Knightriders 4. The imago of leadership 5. Artifex, exemplar, and guide: Using metaphors of the labyrinth in leadership studies 6. Following as imitation: Recovering the sociology of Gabriel Tarde 7. Making distinctions: Hazel and Hawthorn 8. Lights, camera, action: The ceremonial function of hearings and trials 9. Coda: The emergent beauty of authentic leadership