This book aims to develop a philosophy of leadership from the fiction of C.S. Lewis. Using such works as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Cosmic Trilogy, and Till We Have Faces, the author focuses on the benefits of fiction for leadership philosophy, including the use of models for leadership from narrative worlds. Exploring topics such as agency theory, conflict, authentic leadership, and dark leadership, this book will offer researchers in HRM and leadership studies a fresh perspective of the fictional works of the foremost Christian apologist of the 20th century.

Aaron Perry is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Leadership at Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, USA. He is the author of Biblical Theology for Ethical Leadership: Leaders from Beginning to End, editor of Developing Ears to Hear: Listening in Pastoral Ministry, the Spiritual Life, and Theology and co-editor of Leadership the Wesleyan Way: An Anthology for Forming Leaders in Wesleyan Thought and Practice. He is also co-author of He Ascended into Heaven: Learn to Live an Ascension-Shaped Life.

1. Leading Between the Lines.- 2. If Jadis Ran the N.I.C.E.: Philosophy of Leadership.- 3. Defeating Dragons by Reading the Right Books: Narrative and Leadership.- 4. Womb of Worlds or Silent Space?: Imagination and Leadership.- 5. Let the Prince Win His Spurs: Agency Theory and Agency.- 6. Saving Faces: Authentic Leadership and the Tension of Self-Disclosure.- 7. Upsetting a Basket of Deplorable Words: Overcoming Dark Leadership.- 8. A Lewisian Way of Leading.