Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

Lecture: Leadership, liberty and the crisis of authority
Frank Furedi gives the 2011 John Bonython Lecture to the Centre for Independent Studies.

In this insightful and humorous lecture, delivered in Australia on 15 November 2011, Professor Furedi examines how leadership has become commodified and professionalised – now available for sale in hard cover rather than being a personal trait hard-won through experience and responsibility. He also looks at the ramifications for freedom when management is by procedures manual rather than personal risk-taking and judgement.

Watch a film of the lecture here.

First published by Centre for Independent Studies, 13 December 2011