The book, chapter by chapter
Chapter guide
An orientation to each chapter: what it argues, the questions it puts, the concepts it introduces and the cases it works through. These are doorways, not summaries.
The constitutive claim, and why it needs six chapters
Chapter One: Rhetoric
Conclusion: The story that remainsPersuasion as the medium in which leadership becomes real
Chapter Two: CharacterWhat leadership consists of when the usual frames fail
Chapter Three: NamingThe political work performed by a single word
Chapter Four: Figure-GroundThe conditions that must exist before leadership is possible
Chapter Five: MethodMethods adequate to a constitutive claim
Chapter Six: ApplicationTelling, replotting, reading — and the ethics of each
What the constitutive claim actually means, and three limitations