Introduction / John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich -- Conceptualising leadership -- What is leadership : person, result, position, or process, or all or none of these? / Keith Grint, Owain Smolovik Jones and Clare Holt -- Recognizing and realizing the market value of leadership / Dave Ulrich & Justin Allen -- Beyond the hero-leader : leadership by collectives / Viviane Sergi, Jean-Louis-Denis and Ann Langley -- Understanding leadership in the face of crisis and uncertainty / David E. Rast, III and Michael A. Hogg -- Studying leadership -- Studying leadership : taking meaning, relationality and ideology seriously / Mats Alvesson -- Instead of angels : leaders, leadership and longue durée / Peter Gronn -- Critical perspectives on leadership studies / Scott Taylor and Jackie Ford -- Psychoanalytic perspectives on leadership / Irma Rybnikova -- Leadership and power / Brigid Carroll and Josh Firth -- Followership in context / Mary Uhl-Bien and Melissa Carsten -- Leadership succession in politics and business / Fredrik Bynander and Paul Hart -- Leadership in interaction / Magnus Larsson -- Practising leadership -- Politics in leadership / Jean Hartley -- Great expectations and great limitations : walking the tightrope of political leadership in the 21st century / Matthew Laing and James Walter -- Co-leadership : contexts, configurations and conditions / Emilie Gibeau, Wendy Reid and Ann Langley -- Leadership on the board: the role of the company secretary / Andrew Kakabadse, Nadeem Khan and Nada Kakabadse -- Practising religious leadership / Jack Barentsen -- Practising clinical leadership / John Storey and Richard Holti -- Contextualising leadership -- How does institution matter? : leadership behaviour in eastern and western europe / Werner Auer-Rizzi and Gerhard Reber -- Consequences of context : political leadership and followership / Barbara Kellerman -- Spirituality, religion and notions of leadership / Sverre Spoelstra -- Leadership, masculinity and ethics in financial services / David Knights -- Global leadership in perspective / Allan Bird, Mark E. Mendenhall, Joyce S. Osland, Gary Oddou and Sebastian Reiche -- Political leadership in the 21st century : neo-liberalism and the rise of the ceo politician / Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes -- Evaluating leadership -- The anatomy of destructive leadership / Ronald J. Burke -- Evaluating the performance of ethical leadership / Alan Lawton -- Leadership and organizational performance : state of the art and a research agenda / Eva Knies, Christian Jacobsen and Lars Tummers -- Leaders as spiritual heroes : the paradoxes of unlimited leader agency / Dennis Tourish -- Imagining leadership -- Portrayals of leadership in science fiction / Kimberly Yost -- Media portrayals : from leadership cults to celebrity politicians / Maja Simunjak and John Street -- Projecting authority : representations leadership in architecture / Michael Minkenberg -- Nurturing leadership -- Can leadership be taught? / Ann L. Cunliffe and Julie Wilson -- Diverse approaches to leadership development / Jonathan Gosling and Ian Sutherland -- Identity construction and deconstruction in leadership development programmes / Helen Delaney -- Discourse and leader identity / Peter Sun -- Conclusions -- Looking to the future of leadership / John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich.