Books on individual leadership, rather amazingly, continue to come out, and continue to promise great things from the superlative leaders their secrets will help readers become. What they also all do, though, is assume that there is no controversy regarding the location of leadership: it is in individuals, and emanates from them into the organizations which they grace with their presence. Indeed, many of these observers go so far as to say that the organization exists to give expression to the leader’s leadership – or, at least, must reform itself around the unique ways each leader exhibits that leadership. William Tate, a consultant in the United Kingdom with a strong background as a senior manager, offers some long-overdue questions about these assumptions in his new book . . .
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