Taking it theme from the fifth annual Studying Leadership Conference held at Cranfield School of Management, Leadership Learning explores the challenge of learning and developing leadership in the 21st century.This is the second of two books to emerge from the conference, taking the theme 'Knowledge into Action'."

Taking its theme from the fifth annual Studying Leadership conference held at Cranfield School of Management, this workoffers new formulations of the concept of leadership.Making a clear link between research and practice, it explores how new ideas about leadership will lead to new approaches to leadership practice."

This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.