Lexington Books
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-4985-0249-8 • Hardback • July 2015 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-0251-1 • Paperback • August 2019 • $40.99 • (£32.00)
978-1-4985-0250-4 • eBook • July 2015 • $39.00 • (£30.00)
Mahesh Daas is dean of the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture distinguished professor.
Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1: Leadership
Chapter 2: Transformational and Charismatic Leadership
Chapter 3: Aesthetics of Organizations and Leadership
Chapter 4: Vitruvian Leadership
Chapter 5: Aesthetics of Identity and Change
Part 2
Chapter 6: Leading with Aesthetics at MIT
Chapter 7: Analyzing Leadership Aesthetics at MIT
Conclusions
Leading with Aesthetics is a tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship, citing a remarkably wide variety of sources and plumbing multiple subjects with significant depth. The result is a very satisfying, multi-dimensional, multi-faceted exegesis of a topic that indeed seems to have been given too little consideration in scholarly and actual evaluations of institutional leadership.
— James Langley, Langley Innovations
Leading with Aesthetics offers a compelling and beautifully illustrated case for leaders to see their enterprise’s outward design as subtly but powerfully conveying its inner purpose. Mahesh Daas has demonstrated that a single determined official can transform a hoary and misleading architecture into one that radiates its true mission.
— Michael Useem, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Leadership Dispatches