The Arts of Leading Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

This multi-author volume turns to the humanities to explore what we can learn about leadership when we shift our lens away from business, politics, and the social sciences to explore the rich, diverse, and nuanced perspectives of the liberal arts. Drawing insights from leading scholars in classics, philosophy, religion, literature, history, and the visual and performing arts, this book considers how diverse exemplars and a wide range of disciplinary ways of knowing can illuminate complex aspects of leadership that are often obscured in a leadership discourse typically centered on business and politics. It asks fundamental questions about human social life: What does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be "leaders"? And how might diverse perspectives from the humanities expand how leadership is imagined, represented, and enacted? Rather than instrumentalizing the humanities or reducing them to mere management resources, The Arts of Leading engages diverse perspectives from the humanities on their own terms to uncover alternative ways of imagining, embodying, and enacting leadership across different historical, moral, and cultural contexts. The result is a series of insightful and refreshing essays that challenge leaders, scholars, and citizens to consider the nuanced meaning of leadership in our complex world"--