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1. Introduction
2. Outline
3. Model of leadership orientation
4. Hersey and Blanchard’s leadership model
5. Action-centred leadership
6. Panopticum
7. Lost horizon
8. "Fictional Leaders" (The book)
9. Main research question
10. "Things fall apart"
11. Chinua Achebe
12. Central character of "Things fall apart"
13. The village in "Things fall apart"
14. Quotes from "Things fall apart"
15. Leader of the village
16. Work of a leader in the village
17. Understanding the collective needs
18. Proper behaviour
19. Changing the criteria for power and status
20. Old order falls apart and new leadership emerges
21. Lord Jim
22. Hornblower
23. Captain Ahab of ‘Moby Dick’
24. James Bond and Miss Moneypenny
25. Xenophon - Cyropaedia
26. Leadership and dharma
27. The Ramayana story
28. The Purusharthas
29. The Mahabharat TV show
30. Piety & determancy vs. changing the rules
31. The Madness of the Day
32. Maurice Blanchot
33. Contents of the book "Fictional Leaders"
34. "Leadership and the Humanities" (The journal)
35. Thank you and contact details

Topics Covered

• What we can learn from fiction that we can’t get from studying actual leaders
• Trustworthy narratives, empathy and a combination of protagonist and context
• Beyond leadership style, situation and function
• Leadership and the Humanities (beyond social sciences)
• What it’s like to lead (Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’; Conrad’s 'Lord Jim’; Forrester’s ‘Hornblower’; Melville’s ‘Moby Dick")
• What is leadership? (James Bond and Miss Moneypenny; Xenophon’s ‘Cyropaedia’; The ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharata’; Blanchard’s ‘Remains of the Day')

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Series:

• Leadership Development

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Bite-size Case Studies:

• 'Things Fall Apart': a story of leadership, intuition, and social transformation

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Publication History

• Published on August 7, 2014