The Three Faces of Leadership Manager, Artist, Priest

by Hatch, Mary Jo; Kostera, Monika; Kozminski, Andrzej K.

• ISBN13: 9781405122603
• ISBN10: 1405122609
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This leadership texttakes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Mary Jo Hatch is C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce at the McIntyre School of Commerce, University of Virginia, and Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She is the author of Organization Theory; Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives (1997) and co-editor of The Expressive Organization (2000).

Monika Kostera has published several books and articles for academics and practitioners on a wide range of management issues, from leadership to human resource management.

Andrzej K. KoŸmiñski has published both academic and practitioner-based articles extensively on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of the first book on management change in the post communist world called Catching Up? Organizational and Management Change in the Ex-Socialist Block, and co-edited (with George S. Yip) Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Chapter 1 The Aesthetics of Leadership	1	(11)
Management as Art and Aesthetics	1	(2)
The Three Faces of Leadership	3	(2)
Art and Religion at the Foundation of Cultures	5	(1)
Taking an Aesthetic Approach to Leading	6	(1)
Overview of the Book	7	(5)
Chapter 2 Telling Business Stories	12	(32)
Stories and Storytelling	13	(2)
Storytelling in Organizations	15	(8)
The CEOs' Tales	23	(13)
Reflexivity and Complexity in Organizational Storytelling	36	(4)
Developing Your Storytelling Skills	40	(4)
Chapter 3 Dramatizing Leadership	44	(27)
Theater through the Ages	46	(1)
The Theater Metaphor in Organization Studies	47	(3)
Theater in the HBR Interviews: From Morality Play to Global Show	50	(14)
Dramatic Range	64	(3)
Putting on a Show	67	(4)
Chapter 4 Leading Mythologically	71	(43)
Myths and Archetypes	74	(2)
The HBR Pantheon of Business Leaders	76	(4)
The In-crowd: Hermes, Athena and Demeter	80	(15)
Old Favorites: Zeus, Ares and Hephaestus	95	(13)
Rare and Absent Gods	108	(3)
Mythologizing Yourself and Others	111	(3)
Chapter 5 Forming and Reforming the Institution of Management	114	(18)
Managerial Culture and its Institutionalizing Force	115	(3)
Our Interview with HBR	118	(10)
HBR's Role in Managerial Culture	128	(2)
Aesthetic Influences on the Institution of Management	130	(1)
Distinguishing Manager, Artist and Priest	131	(1)
Chapter 6 The Business Leader as Artist and Priest	132	(10)
Business as Religion?	134	(1)
Using Faith to Redress Ethics in Business	134	(1)
The Vision to Change: Creation, Inspiration, and Institutionalization	135	(2)
Aligning Manager, Artist and Priest	137	(5)
Postscript	142	(1)
Appendix A: List of Stories and Their Locations in the HBR Interviews	143	(10)
Appendix B: List of CEO Interviews	153	(2)
Bibliography	155	(6)
Additional Reading and Resources	159	(2)
Index	161