While a wide range of studies have analysed and discussed mainly different types and characteristics of leadership, the aim of this book is to explore the contributions made by multidimensional and integrative theories that focus on leadership discourses as leadership-impacting and leadership-impacted practices. A particular focus is on empirical investigations that emphasise the role of language in doing leadership, by showing how leadership emerges from the dynamics of everyday contextually embedded discursive interactions and communication processes that involve multiple and interdependent organisational agents. Against this backdrop are briefly presented the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches used in individual chapters that provide deeper insights into the competing, multi-voiced, controversial and complex identities and relationship s enacted in the performance of leadership discourse practices. The end goal is to provide an enhanced understanding of how leadership is discursively constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed in a variety of formal and informal leadership activities in the fields of business , politics , law, media , education, and sports .