Reference
Resources
Further reading, related work and materials for using the book. A maintained area rather than a finished one.
Further reading, by theme
Drawn from the book's own sources and further reading sections. Full bibliographic detail is in the book; this is an orientation for readers wanting to follow a thread.
- Rhetoric and persuasion
- Aristotle's Rhetoric in Kennedy's translation is the foundation. Atkinson's work on rhetorical formats in political speech; Shklovsky on art as technique; Propp's Morphology of the Folktale; Barry and Elmes on narrative views of strategic discourse.
- Narrative and organisation
- Czarniawska on narrating the organisation and on strong plots; Gabriel on storytelling in organisations; Boje on the storytelling organisation; Weick on sensemaking; Vaara, Sonenshein and Boje on narratives as sources of stability and change.
- Character, ethics and virtue
- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; MacIntyre on virtue; Heifetz on leadership without easy answers; Ghoshal on how bad management theories destroy good management practice.
- Naming and critical leadership studies
- Austin's How to Do Things with Words; Learmonth and Morrell, Critical Perspectives on Leadership; Alvesson and Spicer; Collinson; Meindl and colleagues on the romance of leadership.
- Space and figuration
- Elias, What is Sociology?; Lefebvre, The Production of Space; Giddens on structuration; Fairhurst on dualisms in leadership research.
- Method
- White's Metahistory; Ricoeur on time and narrative; Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge; Watson on organising and managing work for the storytelling halo.
The author's own work
The selected publications listed on the author page are the research the book draws on. Where a case interests you, the underlying paper carries the evidence in full.
Downloads
Worksheets, approved diagrams and printable exercises will be published here once approved. The book's figures — including the two-dimensional map of aphorisms and the storytelling halo — require rights clearance before any version can appear on this site.
Talks, interviews and related articles
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Corrections and errata
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