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About Our Home
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A member of the ILA since 2005, Keith Grint is currently a professor at Warwick University Business School where he teaches Public Leadership. A highly respected leadership scholar, Grint has held a variety of academic posts including: Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University, Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster University Management School, Director of Research at the Saïd Business School, and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College, University of Oxford. He remains an Associate Fellow at Saïd and Oxford.
Grint writes prolifically on a wide variety of topics—many of which are also being examined at this conference. An overview of his 61 books, chapters, and journal articles illustrates the breadth of his curiosity and intellectual mastery, as well as his influential contributions to the field. Averaging a book a year since 1995, he most recently authored or co-edited: The Sage Handbook of Leadership; Sage Major Works in Leadership; Leadership: A Very Short Introduction; The New Public Leadership Challenge; and Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-Day.
A selection of his book chapter and journal article titles reflects his long-term commitment to a genuinely multi-disciplinary, multi-sector approach to leadership as well as his knack for intriguing those who follow his work: “Wicked Problems and Clumsy Solutions: The Role of Leadership,” “Why Leadership is Important,” “Determining the Indeterminacies of Change Leadership,” “Followership,” “Dispersed Leadership” “The Cuckoo Clock Syndrome: Addicted to Command, Allergic to Leadership” “Overcoming the Hydra: Leaderless Groups and Terrorism,” “Learning to Lead: Can Aristotle Help Us Find the Road to Wisdom?” “Problems, Problems, Problems: The Social Construction of Leadership,” “Leadership, Task and Relationship: Orpheus, Prometheus and Janus,” and “The Sacred in Leadership: Separation, Sacrifice and Silence.”
Professor Grint has also contributed to the development of the field of leadership studies by co-founding in 2005 and co-editing with David Collinson the journal Leadership (Sage). In 2001 he co-created, also with David Collinson, the annual International Conference on Studying Leadership. He has served for the past two years on the ILA’s Publications Committee.
In common with a number of England’s most influential thinkers, Grint embarked on a rich and varied pre-academic career. Before becoming a fully fledged scholar, he was employed as an agricultural labourer, a factory worker, an industrial cleaner, a removals worker, a freezer operative, a swimming pool attendant, a postman, a clerical worker, and—perhaps most useful to an academic career, a part-time karate teacher.
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