Leadership for the Disillusioned: Moving beyond myths and heroes to leading that liberates

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We expect our leaders to be assertive, confident, in control. Can they, and we, live up to this? Or should leadership instead be aimed at altogether different outcomes? Amanda Sinclair, writer, professor at Australia?s foremost Business School and yoga teacher, tackles these fundamental questions about leadership head on. She shows how our ideas about leadership have been captured by narrow interests and corporate templates. Challenging leadership assumptions and myths, she explores an approach to leading that is truly liberating for both leaders and those around them. Leadership for the Disillusioned is not a guide to getting to the top: it will take you on a different journey. Sinclair draws on a wide set to social ideas, Eastern philosophies and personal encounters with exceptional leaders. Leadership for the Disillusioned is for anyone who is looking for an alternative way to lead.

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Amanda Sinclair is Foundation Professor of Management Diversity and Change at Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books on gender and leadership, including Trials at the Top (1994) and Doing Leadership Differently (1998), and co-author of a book on leadership and diversity, New faces of Leadership (2002). She consults to organisations and senior management teams, is a regular contributor to the business press, and also teaches yoga. A mother of four, Amanda brings to all her work a strong interest in leadership that supports well-being and growth. Table of Contents Introduction: Leadership for liberation Part I: What?s wrong with leadership? The seduction of leadership What?s wrong with ideas about leadership? Teaching and learning about leadership Part II: Practices of liberating leadership Going back Working with power Bringing bodies into leadership Breath and mindfulness Part III: Going Deeper The identity work of leadership Leading with spirit Less-ego leadership Epilogue Notes