Purpose – Executive coaching has emerged as a widely used leadership development practice in organizations. To date, however, the literature on coaching is largely devoid of studies of how coaching works in practice and no unified comprehensive theoretical framework has been agreed upon which...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : on the question of the primacy of leadership -- The ancien regime leader : the corporate manager -- The decline of collectivism and the new masculinity discourse -- The new generation of leaders : the charismatic leader -- Leadership work in the new...

1. Introduction : on the question of the primacy of leadership -- 2. The Ancien regime leader : the corporate manager -- 3. The decline of collectivism and the new masculinity discourse -- 4. The new generation of leaders : the charismatic leader -- 5. Leadership work in the new millennium : the...