It seems to me that academics are more likely to take a pessimistic view as "critique" is part of the role.

 

So far Leadership has had a fairly charmed life so far as I can tell. For academic discussion, quality did not recover as a topic after Making Quality Critical: New Perspectives on Organizational Change , Wilkinson and Wilmott  1995.

 

Has there been any equivalent sort of book on Leadership?

 

Not that I think there should be, just interested.