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Chapter: Not just ‘Adding women in’: Women remaking leadership
Why is it that so much of women’s contribution to public life has not been recognised as leadership? Amanda provides the reasons and argues the need to interrogate received wisdom about leadership and look to women to shift public imagination about what good leadership is.
Chapter: Can I Really Be Me? The Challenges for Women Leaders Constructing Authenticity
Authenticity in leaders is surely a good thing. However, in this chapter Amanda shows that authenticity is not necessarily a property some leaders have, rather it is a quality others attribute to you. For women leaders, earning authenticity is made more complex by readily mobilised judgements and social stereotypes about women. ‘Just be yourself’ is not necessarily a simple path to success.
Chapter: Being Leaders: Identities and Identity Work in Leadership
Leaders come under many pressures to produce and perform a coherent, convincing self, a memorable ‘brand’ or a persona that ‘looks’ like a leader. But what are the risks in this obsession to ‘be’ a leader, to those around them and perhaps leaders themselves. In this chapter Amanda casts a critical eye over the business of being a leader.
Chapter: Writing Differently
This article was written with Chris Grey while Amanda was visiting on a fellowship at Cambridge University. The piece challenges academics to think about how and why they write - to discourage pompous, impenetrable writing – and they argue – in what they hope is an entertaining way - for funny, beguiling and surprising writing.
Article: Body Possibilities in Leadership
Bodies and physical performances play a central but often unacknowledged role in leadership. Our size, stature and physical presence establishes credentials and authority but leaders can also use their openness, their willingness to ‘show up’ and listen to followers ‘on the ground’ to connect with and empower communities. Amanda draws on several Australian examples to show how bodies can bring new possibilities to leadership.