Keith Grint is Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and teaches at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. Previously he was Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster University Management School. Before that he was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College, University of Oxford. Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage (www.sagepub.co.uk/resources/leadership.htm), and founding co-organizer of the International Conference in Leadership Research. He remains a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster, a Fellow of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, a research arm of the UK’s National School of Government.He wrote the literature review for ‘Strengthening Leadership in the Public Sector’ (2000) a project of the Performance and Innovation Unit (Cabinet Office), see http://www.number-10.gov.uk/su/leadership/08/default.htm. His books include The Sociology of Work 3rd edition (2005); Management: A Sociological Introduction (1995); Leadership (ed.) (1997); Fuzzy Management (1997); The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (1997); The Arts of Leadership (2000); Organizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson); and Leadership: Limits and Possibilities (2005).