Performing Leadership

1. Prologue: Why Write Another Book About Leadership?
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

Section 2. Putting Performance in the Picture

2. In Search of the Leaderful Self: The Rise and Rise of the Psychological Paradigm of Leadership
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

3. The Dogs that Rarely Barked: Alternative Conceptions of Leadership
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

4. Performing Leadership: “is”, “as”, Enactment, Narrative and Audience
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

Section 3. Enactment, Narrative and Audience

5. Rowan Williams not Rowan Atkinson: Rituals and Performative Leadership
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

6. The Warp and Weft of Organisational Life: Relationships and Performative Leadership
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

7. A Beginning, a Middle and an End: Narratives in Organisations
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

8. Is Anybody There? The Nature of Audiences
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

9. Ideas of Performance in Leadership Development Programmes: Towards a New Resolution of Some Old Problems?
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

10. Authenticity and the Performance of Leadership: Neither a Paradox nor a Model
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

11. Epilogue: Theory and Research in the Performative Theory of Leadership
Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson

Keywords: Business and Management, Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Human Resource Management, Organization