Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of leadership and through this debate suggests possible ways to improve as a leader. It is structured around 5 key aspects of leadership: person, product, position, process and purpose, providing a useful organizing framework. It combines theoretical discussions with lively examples to bring the subject alive.

Improving on the authors' framework from the 1st edition, Leadership refocuses on contemporary technological, political and environmental issues, coupled with wide historical case studies, to offer a critical discussion of leadership thought.