Institute of Commercial Management | Qualification Subject

Leadership: Challenges & Practice

Main Topics of Study

The Arts of Leadership

Parallel Leadership Situations

Crash landing and take-off: business leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic
The floating republics: political leadership and the Spithead and Nore mutinies
Nursing the media: leadership in the Crimean and English hospitals
Scarlet and black: military leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke’s Drift

Situating Extreme Leaders

Henry Ford: the blind business visionary
Horatio Nelson: Determining the indeterminate military hero
Adolf Hitler: the political emotionasaurus rex
Martin Luther King’s dream speech: the rhetoric of social leadership

The End of Leadership

Recommended Reading

Main Text:

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The Arts of Leadership, K Grint, Focal Press, Oxford (2005)

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Alternative Text and Further Reading:

Inspiring Leadership, ICM, Thorogood, London (2002)