DPIR’s Edward Brooks co-edits new book on ‘The Arts of Leading’
DPIR’s Director of the Programme for Global Leadership Edward Brooks has co-edited a new book with Michael Lamb (Wake Forest University) exploring leadership from the multiple perspectives of the arts and humanities.
The Arts of Leading – published by Georgetown University Press – draws on the power of the arts and humanities to move beyond common assumptions about leadership and expand our understanding of how leadership is imagined, represented, and enacted.
The book – a series of insightful essays – draws on perspectives from prominent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, literature, history, art, music, and theatre.
Rather than instrumentalising the arts and humanities or reducing them to mere management resources, the book engages a litany of diverse and nuanced perspectives to reveal different ways of imagining and embodying leadership across historical, moral, political, and cultural contexts.
Edward said:
“The arts and humanities are sources of vast and untapped potential for our understanding and practice of leadership.
"Returning the study of leadership to the humanities offers new insight into who leaders are, new perspectives on what leadership involves, and new approaches to enacting leadership in ways that can bring the best out of ourselves and others.”
A book launch and panel discussion will be held at Oxford’s Rhodes House on the city’s South Parks Road from 4.30-6pm on Tuesday, 14 January 2025.
The panel will comprise Edward Brooks, Michael Lamb, Melissa Jones Briggs (Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Pegram Harrison (Saïd Business School).
