Dilemmas of Leadership

Rickards (emeritus, business, U. of Manchester, UK) offers a second edition of his 2004 text for graduate-level students and professionals. He states in his preface: "The proposed methodology is described through the metaphors of map-reading, map-making, and map-testing in order to identify dilemmas and challenge personal assumptions about dealing with them." Coverage encompasses dilemmas pertaining to many aspects of leadership including functional leadership of project teams, charisma, shared meanings, trust and competence, strategy, power and discrimination, ethics, and creativity. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tudor Rickards is Professor Emeritus at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He previously worked at New York Medical College and as a manager within Unilever plc. He has published and lectured extensively on leadership, creativity, and change management, and is a co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Creativity (Routledge 2009)