On Leadership

In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, andhere translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation bynoted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar JamesMarch uses great works of literature to explore the problems ofleadership.

• Uses great works of literature to explore the problems ofleadership, for example War and Peace, Othello, and DonQuixote.
  
• Presents moral dilemmas related to leadership, for example thebalance between private life and public duties, and between theexpression and the control of sexuality.
  
• Encourages readers to explore ideas that are sometimessubversive and unpalatable but may allow organizations to adapt ina rapidly changing world.