What Twenty-first Century Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Biografisk notat
Dr Christine A. Eastman is a Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University. Her research centres on professional practice, leadership, assessment innovation, and the re-conceptualisation of continuing professional development. Dr Eastman contributes to the leadership programme at Lancaster University where she lectures on the integration of American literature into a business curriculum as well as contribute to various leadership initiatives through a literary lens. She is the author of Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success (Routledge, 2019), Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature: Towards Wisdom (Springer, 2016) and editor of Transforming Sales Leadership: Real Stories from Sales Practitioners (Routledge, forthcoming 2024)...it's a brilliant idea to employ insights from literary texts to the business world and to the world at large. It's a shame so few leaders have any empathy but exhibit the gamut of all seven deadly sins.
Dr Yael Maurer, Independent Scholar and member of the Israel Film and Television Academy
Eastman's blend of literary criticism (with visual aids by Bosch!), citation of management and training secondary sources, and her own honest self-exposing narrative works very well, along with the inclusion of evidence from students that her methodology works!
Professor Bill Jones, University of Leicester
This is an important and unique perspective on leadership, challenging the outdated idea of hero leadership and yet looking to the 19th century for insight into leadership paradigms, which are perpetuated in organisations, and are still counter-productive and ethically repulsive.
Taking the Seven Deadly Sins as examples of common human failings which affect leadership today, the author proposes an extremely unique way of examining leadership failure, based on access to some compelling and illuminating literary texts.
Kathleen Houston, Teaching Fellow, Lancaster University Management School
Eastman offers something totally original, fresh, and compelling for leaders. Just maybe this will give us that fabled “edge” we all seek. Her USP is her extraordinary passion for nineteen century American literature as a lens through which business leaders make greater sense of themselves and their leadership, and in doing so they receive the extraordinary gift of better writing skills as they immerse themselves into these mysterious texts. The savvy use of classy, classic, and thoughtful fictional literature to reveal timeless leadership lessons is a new and approachable packaging that we can perhaps more easily take to heart and apply for ourselves in a world of sometimes preachy and over-worked copycat business improvement.
Ian Helps, Chair of PACE Digital Services, and advisory board member, Cranfield University Sales and Marketing program
Learning about contemporary leadership challenges by considering the seven deadly sins through Nineteenth Century American Literature texts is an innovative approach, but a compelling one. Interweaving personal stories, and the student experiences and vignettes with the literature make the narrative very real and very relevant to the modern business world.
Dr Louise Sutton, Programme Director, Consalia