Much has been written about how leaders and teams function in traditional business settings, but there is a comparatively scant literature on the behaviors of leaders and teams facing extreme situations: that is, situations that fall outside the scope of daily experience. This book presents cases drawn from a diverse set of non-traditional and extreme leadership scenarios, offering a fresh perspective on both leadership research and management practice. This groundbreaking volume features expert contributions from across the globe by both management scholars and business leaders. Divided into three main parts - Extreme Expedition Leaders, Extreme Work Teams and Extreme Individual Leaders - the book explores both specific instances of non-traditional leadership and their theoretical and practical implications. Examples discussed include polar and mountaineering expeditions such as Shackleton's Endurance expedition, survival and rescue efforts such as the Chilean mine cave in, security and police crises such as the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and groundbreaking media and entertainment leaders such as Francis Ford Coppola and Glenn Miller. This unique volume will appeal to students and professors of leadership and management studies, as well as managers, executives and other corporate business leaders.
Contents: Preface Introduction PART I: EXTREME EXPEDITION LEADERS 1. Extreme Leadership: Lessons from Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition 2. Extreme Leadership and Decision Making: Scott and Amundsen and the Race to the South Pole 3. Leadership and Organizational Learning in Extreme Situations: Lessons of a Comparative Study of Two Polar Expeditions: One of the Greatest Disasters (Franklin, 1855) and One of the Best Achievements (Nansen, 1892) 4. Leaders in Antarctica: Characteristics of an Antarctic Station Manager 5. The 'Darwin' Mountaineering Expedition in Patagonia: A Case of Successful Leadership Failure 6. Leadership at the Edge of the Summit 7. The Ghosts of Shared Leadership - On Decision-Making and Subconscious Followership in the Death Zone of K2 8. Greenland: Creating World Class Teams PART II: EXTREME WORK TEAMS 9. Dr. Lehman: Extreme Healthcare Leadership along the shores of Lake Tanganyika 10. Bringing Up the Thirty-Three: Emergent Principles in Multi-Tiered Leadership 11. Team Leadership: The Chilean Mine Case 12. Where Pure Leadership is Revealed: Our Police in Harm's Way PART III: EXTREME INDIVIDUAL LEADERS 13. Glenn Miller: Leadership Lessons from a Successful Big Band Musician 14. Extreme Leadership as Creative Leadership: Reflections on Francis Ford Coppola in the Godfather 15. Lost in a Fog? Power Comes from Values 16. Jeanne's Story: A Leader and Her Team's Journey Through Crisis 17. The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings
