Chapter 1: Introduction Theme 1: Philosophical perspectives on leadership Chapter 2: What Heidegger can offer critical leadership studies: An ontological approach Chapter 3: Polycentric order Chapter 4: What critical leadership studies can learn from (reading) Plato Chapter 5: Leadership and post-human ethics Theme 2: Process, practice(s) and power dynamics in leadership Chapter 6: Leadership, power and politics: An overview and research agenda Chapter 7: Collaborative leadership: A processual approach Chapter 8:The skein of language that contains us: Narrative holding environments as leadership Chapter 9: Critical leadership dialectics Chapter 10: The critical edge of studies of leadership in interaction Chapter 11: Community leadership and power Chapter 12: Leaderless leadership in radically decentralised organisations Chapter 13: Leadership-As-Practice: Appreciation, critique and future directions Theme 3: Diversity and leadership Chapter 14: The legitimacy trap for women leaders: Why leadership legitimacy is unstable for women Chapter 15: Decolonial perspectives of activism and climate justice in Latin America: Resisting, re-centering, and redefining leadership from the margins Chapter 16: The art of creative brokering: Leadership in the Chinese Punk scene Chapter 17: Navigating gender and religion in leadership: Identity construction of women leaders in Islamic contexts Theme 4: Leadership education and development Chapter 18: From containers to concerns: The communicative constitution of leadership development actors Chapter 19: Bringing intersectionality into critical leadership development and learning Chapter 20: Mapping the leadership industries: Leadership coaching and leadership assessment Chapter 21: Not becoming a leader Chapter 22: Teaching leadership critically: A metamodern remix Theme 5: Lessons from the dark side of leadership Chapter 23: The gift of populism Chapter 24: The allure of strongman leaders Chapter 25: Burning love: The incendiary psychology of Trumpism Chapter 26: The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how COVID-19 is exploited by populist leaders Chapter 27: The canary in the coalmine: Using linguistic markers to identify the early warning signs of hubristic leader behaviours Chapter 28: Business beyond politics? A-political corporate leadership in authoritarian Russia Chapter 29: Leadership and the tactics of alternative facts Chapter 30: Leadership, vision and the fallacy of corporate purpose Theme 6: Reimagining leadership ? and leadership studies Chapter 31: Leadership and the promise of democracy Chapter 32: Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies Chapter 33: Norm-critical leadership Chapter 34: Leadership and climate change Chapter 35: Getting rid of the L-word: Are our aspirations for ‘leadership’ not leadership at all? Chapter 36: A critical race analysis of leadership theorizing