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"Things fall apart" : a story of leadership, intuition, and social transformation
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Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Henry Stewart Talks,

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This case study critiques the character of Okonkwo from the novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and analyses his leadership style.


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Leadership lessons from Shakespeare's plays
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ISBN: 1527539970 Year: 2019 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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On leadership
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ISBN: 1405132477 9781405132473 1405132469 9781405132466 Year: 2005 Publisher: Malden : Blackwell Publishing,

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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture
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ISBN: 9780813935270 081393527X 1299873790 9781299873797 9780813935256 0813935253 9780813935263 0813935261 Year: 2013 Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,

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By considering the competing and varied political interests of black communities, these writers reimagine the dominant models in a way that can empower communities to be self-sustaining in the absence of a messianic male leader.


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Fictional leaders : heroes, villains and absent friends
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Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Henry Stewart Talks,

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Des Kaisers neue Kleider : über das Imaginäre politischer Herrschaft : Texte, Bilder, Lektüren
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ISBN: 3596154480 Year: 2002 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag,

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Demagogues, power, and friendship in classical Athens : leaders as friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon
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ISBN: 9781350214514 1350214515 9781350214484 Year: 2023 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building. Comedies of Aristophanes (particularly Knights), tragedies of Euripides (particularly Iphigenia in Aulis), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly Anabasis and Cyropaedia) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes' Knights between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out - as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself.


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Natur und herrschaft : Analysen zur Physik der Macht
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ISBN: 3110452421 3110454742 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,

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Der Tagungsband widmet sich den Bedeutungsverschiebungen, Umbrüchen, Geltungsverlusten und -gewinnen im Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher Wahrnehmungen von einer "Natur" guten Herrschens. Im Zentrum stehen die in vormodernen Gesellschaften ausgeprägten Strategien zur Legitimierung bzw. Delegitimierung politischer Amtsträger anhand wiederkehrender, als "natürlich" konzipierter Kriterien der Herausgehobenheit und Führungsqualifikation. These conference proceedings address the shifting meanings, upheavals, invalidations, and validations linked to different perceptions of "natural" rule. A focus is placed on widespread strategies for legitimizing and delegitimizing political office holders in pre-modern societies by means of recurrent recourse to "natural" criteria marking an individual as distinct and qualified to lead.

Manly leaders in nineteenth-century British literature
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ISBN: 0791478785 1435641205 9781435641204 0791473570 9780791473573 9780791478783 Year: 2008 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.


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Xenophon's mirror of princes : reading the reflections
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ISBN: 9780199563814 0199563810 0191724955 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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This title is a study of images of leadership in Xenophon's narrative works. Gray argues that Xenophon employs techniques such as the creation of patterned narratives, as well as allusions to Homer and Herodotus.

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