Strategy & Organisation seminar with Professor Jonathan Gosling
Event Date: 26 March 2015
Napoleon Bonaparte's relationship with power and some implications for how leadership works in modern institutions - research seminar and lunch with Professor Jonathan Gosling, University of Exeter Business School.
When: Thursday, March 26, 11am-2pm
Where: Collins Suite, Room 205, Collins Building
Subject: Meritocracy was one of the great innovations of the revolutionary period at the end of the 18th century and it remains a potent but troublesome idea today.
This paper takes Napoleon's career as the focus for examining meritocracy in relation to other modes of legitimating the unequal distrbution of power: Patronage, charisma, coup d'etat, election, terror, manipulation and inheritance. There will be opportunities to consider how these operate in familiar institutions - universities included.
This seminar is based on research underpinning a newly published book, "Napoleonic Leadership: A Study in Power" by Stephanie Jones and Jonathan Gosling (Sage 2015).
Professor Gosling is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School. Having trained as an anthropologist, he worked for several years as a mediator in neighbourhood conflicts in London, founded the UK‘s first community mediation service and was the founding Secretary of the European Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution.
After taking a mid-career MBA, Jonathan moved into management education at Lancaster University, where he directed the MBA and other programmes for British Airways and other major companies. He co-founded, with Henry Mintzberg and three others, a new approach to management education, the International Masters in Practising Management. This takes place in six countries around the world, and has been the springboard for several subsequent innovations in helping practising managers to improve the way they manage. Professor Gosling also played a significant role in the so-called ‘critical management’ movement, launching an influential MPhil and PhD and contributing to the development of specialist conferences and interest groups.
To reserve your place for both the talk and lunch, please contact hilde.quigley@strath.ac.uk
Published: 19 March 2015
