ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the following questions. What are leadership scholars and practitioners as a collective experiencing within the field of leadership studies, How are they faring, What threats to integration is this collective facing and What "truths" are leadership scholars and practitioners communicating in their talk about leadership. At a methodological level, the chapter focuses out the different leadership relationships through Bateson's (1979) distinction between linear, nonlinear, lineal, and recursive relationships. The chapter discusses the moral implications of the trait approach to leadership. It also discusses the Katz's career experience with a different appreciation for the difficulties and complexities of his role as administrator. The chapter provides the behavioural approaches, like path-goal theory of leadership. It explains the Burns concepts of transactional and transforming leadership. It focuses on the intentional leadership activities of the current spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, as he sets something new in motion in his organization.
