Stephen Brookes is Programme Director for the MSc in International Healthcare Leadership and a member of the Innovation, Management and Policy Division at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

A brand new textbook that explores leadership from the perspective of collective leadership. It provides a brief historical background to the development of leadership as a discipline and then discusses the evolution and applications of collective leadership. Grounded in solid academic research, with topical real-work examples and case studies.

Introduction
1. Exploring Leadership
2. Rediscovering the Lost Values of Leadership
3. Leading in the Round: A Collective Leadership Framework
4. Exploring Contexts and Mechanisms as Whole Systems
5. Understanding the Challenges of Leadership
6. Thinking Differently about Leadership Practice
7. Linking Leadership Practice to Outcomes
8. The Practice of Intelligent Leadership
9. The Pedagogy of Practice
10. Intelligent Application.