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Wicked Leadership in Film

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Wicked Leadership in Film offers a novel theory of how leaders can contend with so-called "wicked problems," a class of important, entrenched, and far-reaching political and social challenges (such as climate change or mental illness) that resist ordinary policies and problem solving. Bruce Peabody's relational theory is built on two central claims. First, it holds that we cannot confront wicked problems without understanding how they relate to other leadership challenges such as confronting crises or managing relatively routine decisions. Second, the model contends that our leaders' approach to wicked problems must be understood through their ongoing cooperative or antagonistic relationship with the existing political order-a status that shapes their authority and overall, the potential for success. Besides its original argument about wicked leadership, this book provides a distinct method for testing this theory: by studying a series of cinematic case studies ranging from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Bruce Peabody is a professor of Government and Law at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Introduction Chapter One: Understanding Wicked Problems Chapter Two: A Relational Theory of Wicked Leadership Chapter Three: Creative Destruction: Reconstructive Wicked Leadership Chapter Four: Walking the Line: Orthodox-Innovators and Wicked Problems Chapter Five: Loyal Representatives of Failure: Disjunctive Wicked Leaders Chapter Six: Gadflies and Rebels: Wicked Problems and the Politics of Preemption Conclusion
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