The Persuasive Leader: Lessons from the Arts

An increasingly popular and effective learning process is to use the arts to illustrate the links between leadership, persuasive skill (or rhetoric) and values. The authors use their unconventional material to explore themes such as moral leadership, toxic leadership, learning from failures, distributed leadership, and the leader as a counsellor. Draws examples of persuasive leaders and persuasive leadership principles  from the performing arts, the fine arts, literature, philosophical writings, and biography