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Invisible Management: The Social Construction of Leadership.(Book Review)
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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March 1, 2003
- Author:
- Khurana, Rakesh
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Sven-Erik Sjostrand, Jorgen Sandberg, and Mats Tyrstrup, eds. London: Thomson Learning, 2001. 263 pp. $33.99.
Leadership has been a subject of interest to society and scholars at least since the golden age of Greek philosophy. Although contemporary biographers and journalists have devoted many a page to measuring the "leadership" of figures such as Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Steve Jobs, and Jack Welch, the concept is as ill-defined as it is oft-invoked in popular usage. Ironically, many business schools suggest that their core mission is to develop leaders, but business educators themselves frequently have trouble explaining what they mean by leadership, too often ...