The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest

by Mary Jo Hatch (University of Virginia); Monika Kostera (Warsaw University); Andrzej K. Kozminski (Warsaw University)

• ISBN13: 9781405142496
• ISBN10: 1405142499
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with these famous CEOs, Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski demonstrate how business leaders today use aesthetics, specifically storytelling, dramatizing and mythmaking, to lead their companies successfully. They look at how they inspire organizations through their creativity, virtue and faith, and thus show the faces of the artist and priest alongside the technical and rational face of the manager. The Three Faces of Leadership features clear and accessible explanations of the aesthetic philosophy of management: as applied to the concepts of creativity, imagination, courage, virtue, inspiration, faith and ethics. It presents techniques for developing these qualities as an essential part of leadership; together with the capacity to communicate them to others. Aesthetic leadership practices are linked to organizational culture, change, vision, values and identity. In this way, the book encourages students and executives to align the creative and spiritual aspects of business with their technical training and practice.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Aesthetics of Leadership

Management As Art and Aesthetics

The Three Faces of Leadership

Art and Religion at the Foundation of Cultures

Taking An Aesthetic Approach to Leading

Overview of the Book

Telling Business Stories

Stories and Storytelling

Storytelling in Organizations

The CEOsÆ Tales

Reflexivity and Complexity in Organizational Storytelling

Developing Your Storytelling Skills

Dramatizing Leadership

Theater Through the Ages

The Theater Metaphor in Organization Studies

Theater in The HBR Interviews: From Morality Play to Global Show

Dramatic Range

Putting On a Show

Leading Mythologically

Myths and Archetypes

The HBR Pantheon of Business Leaders

The In Crowd: Hermes, Athena and Demeter

Old Favorites: Zeus, Ares and Hephaestus

Rare and Absent Gods

Mythogizing Yourself and Others

Forming and Reforming the Institution of Management

Managerial Culture and Its Institutionalizing Force

Our Interview with HBR

HBRÆs Role in Managerial Culture

Aesthetic Influences on the Institution of Management

Distinguishing Manager, Artist and Priest

The Business Leaders as Artist and Priest

Business as Religion?

Using Faith to Redress Ethics in Business

The Vision to Change: Creation, Inspiration and Institutionalization

Aligning Manager, Artist and Priest

Postscript

List of stories and their locations in the HBR interviews

List of CEO Interviews

Bibliography

Additional Reading and Resources

Index

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