A number of practitioners in the creative and cultural sector, individually and as groups of learners, reflected on what they do as managers and leaders.
"In spite of the hundreds of books on leadership published every year, very little has been written on leadership in the cultural and creative sector. Many practitioners talk about ‘making it up as they go along’."
They asked questions of the models and theories of leadership and management:
- how do they fit our sector?
- what’s useful?
- what’s not?
This reader sets out to make some of that work more visible, with the aim of generating interest in developing a leadership literature that reflects our concerns, ambitions and learning as a sector.
It also makes a contribution to meeting the needs of practitioners on leadership development programmes, or those conducting their own independent inquiry, who ask, ‘What should I read?’
