This timely collection of original papers explores the vital but largely unrecognized connections between leadership and dissent. In an era when leadership failures can mean homelessness and even death for countless flood victims, losses of life savings for employees of bankrupt corporations, civilian deaths and ravaged societies in the Middle East and incalculable suffering among refugees in central Africa, the studies presented here offer analysis and correctives based on new understandings of the dissent-leadership relationship. The book examines how dissent is implicated in problems plaguing theory development in leadership studies. Topics explored within this framework include dissent in corporate discourses of control, real and manufactured crises, cross-generational perceptions, women leaders' personal and work lives, the professionalization of journalism, religious institutions, activist public relations, and fear-based cultures. It concludes with new proposals for legitimating dissent as a unique instrument for advancing social development and avoiding failures of leadership. Examining dissent as the critical factor that differentiates leadership failures and successes from interdisciplinary perspectives, this illuminating book will be of great interest to advanced students and teachers of leadership studies, as well as corporate executives, policymakers and other leaders aware of the need to improve leadership practices.
1 The Troubles with Leadership by Stephen P. Banks 1
2 Varieties of Dissent by Brian Martin 22
3 Dissent in Times of Crisis by Jean Lipman-Blumen 37
4 Dissent and the Generational Divide by Stephanie Hamel and Ruth Guzley 53
5 Organizational Totalitarianism and the Voices of Dissent by Howard F. Stein 75
6 Leading, Dissenting and Public Relations by Stephen P. Banks 97
7 Women, Leadership and Dissent by Patrice M. Buzzanell and Rebecca Meisenbach and Robyn Remke 119
8 Resistance, Dissent and Leadership in Practice by Gail T. Fairhurst and Heather Zoller 135
9 Press Professionalization, Corporate Rationalization and the Management of Dissent by David S. Allen 149
10 The Sanctity of Dissent by Paul Toscano 169
11 Elevating Dissent and Transcending Fear-based Culture at War and at Work by George Cheney and Daniel J. Lair 182
12 Making a Place for the Practice of Dissenting by Robyn Penman 208
13 Afterword: The Promise of Dissent for Leadership by Stephen P. Banks 228
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