I. Classical leadership. The Republic / Plato ; The art of war / Sun Tzu ; The Prince / Niccol ̣Machiavelli ; The treatise on general sociology / Vilfredo Pareto -- II. Traditional leadership. The nature of leadership / Chester Barnard ; Leadership, membership, and organization / R.M. Stogdill ; Situational control and a dynamic theory of leadership / Fred E. Fiedler -- III. Modern leadership. A definition and illustration of democratic leadership / John Gastil ; Top management styles in Europe : implications for business and cross-national teams / A. Kakabadse ... [et al.] ; Shatter the glass ceiling : women may make better managers / Bernard M. Bass and Bruce J. Avolio ; Sexual static / Judy B. Rosener -- IV. Mythical leadership. The gentleman and the hero : Wellington and Napoleon in the nineteenth century / Iain Pears ; The leadership mystique / Manfred R.F. Kets de Vries ; Leadership : an alienating social myth? / Gary Gemmill and Judith Oakley -- V. Alternative leadership. Organizing, leadership and skilful process / Dian Marie Hosking ; Correspondents' images of Martin Luther King, Jr. : an interpretive theory of movement leadership / Stephen J. Lilley and Gerald M. Platt ; Voicing seduction to silence leadership / Marta B. Calà and Linda Smircich.