Madness and Leadership
From Antiquity to the New Common Era
Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Leadership, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
| Author: | Savvas Papacostas | ISBN: | 9781784719586 |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing | Publication: | August 28, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Savvas Papacostas |
| ISBN: | 9781784719586 |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Publication: | August 28, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Madness and Leadership studies leaders and followers from social, cultural, and biologic perspectives and explores aspects of their personalities that induce them to assume their respective roles. It proposes that leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations, developed to enhance survival and group cohesion; that leaders possess certain biologically-derived personality traits which set them apart and alert followers, consciously or unconsciously, of their status. Important factors that enhance leader emergence have been linked through evolution and are constituents of all societies past and present. Within political theories and historical examples, this book carries the discussion on leadership into a new direction by suggesting that mild psychopathology is one of its central components.
Madness and Leadership studies leaders and followers from social, cultural, and biologic perspectives and explores aspects of their personalities that induce them to assume their respective roles. It proposes that leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations, developed to enhance survival and group cohesion; that leaders possess certain biologically-derived personality traits which set them apart and alert followers, consciously or unconsciously, of their status. Important factors that enhance leader emergence have been linked through evolution and are constituents of all societies past and present. Within political theories and historical examples, this book carries the discussion on leadership into a new direction by suggesting that mild psychopathology is one of its central components.
