Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends

Notes on Contributors Introduction Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great; L.Mitchell Sharing the Secret - Joseph Conrad on Leadership at Sea; P.Villiers The Isolation of the Spirit - Captain Horatio Hornblower RN; S.Jones Leadership and Monomania: Herman Melville's Moby Dick; B.Sievers Nevil Shute - 'Pastoral'; D.Weir 'Things for fall apart' - Chinua Achebe; J.Gosling Leadership and Improvisation - 'A Bell for Adano' by John Hersey; N.Provizer The Silhouette of Leadership - James Bond and Miss Moneypenny; B.Hawkins 'A Wild Sheep Chase' - Haruki Murakami; C.Land, M.Sliwa & S.Spoelstra Leadership and Expectation - Thomas Pynchon; P.Pelzer & P.Case Leadership - 'The Madness of the Day' by Maurice Blanchot; H.Letiche & J-L.Moriceau Leadership and Dharma: The Indian Epics 'Ramayana' and 'Mahabharata' and Their Significance for Leadership Today; H.Verma The Leader as Poet: Tennyson, Whitman and Dickinson; B.Mossberg Leadership and Tradition: Rabindranath Tagore S.Kumar Leadership and Acceptability: Plato and the Odium of Truth; N.Harter Ten Great Works for Leadership Development; R.Adlam Index