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TY - CHAP
T1 - After Leaders
T2 - A World of Leading and Leadership … With No Leaders
AU - Kempster, Stephen John
AU - Parry, Ken
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in After Leadership on 5/10/2018, available online: https://www.routledge.com/After-Leadership/Carroll-Firth-Wilson/p/book/9781138087811
PY - 2018/10/5
Y1 - 2018/10/5
N2 - We have for such a long time tied ourselves up in knots with the word leader. We argue in this chapter 1 that the field of leadership would make its greatest contribution thus far by jettisoning the word leader and giving prominence to leading and leadership. The preoccupation with, on the one hand, seeking the entitative traits, style, authenticity, and charisma of leaders, and, on the other hand, endlessly problematizing the existence of such heroic mythical creatures, has consumed so much resource for such little gain. This view is not new. Drath and colleagues 2 expressed this well in their pitch for repositioning leadership toward outcomes and process. Yet despite the eloquence and authority of their reasoned argument, they could still not let go of leader. In a parallel way, there is a growing group of researchers seeking to push forward with the notion of leadership-as-practice 3 —where leader is problematic, and notions of agency are rightfully given much greater attention.
AB - We have for such a long time tied ourselves up in knots with the word leader. We argue in this chapter 1 that the field of leadership would make its greatest contribution thus far by jettisoning the word leader and giving prominence to leading and leadership. The preoccupation with, on the one hand, seeking the entitative traits, style, authenticity, and charisma of leaders, and, on the other hand, endlessly problematizing the existence of such heroic mythical creatures, has consumed so much resource for such little gain. This view is not new. Drath and colleagues 2 expressed this well in their pitch for repositioning leadership toward outcomes and process. Yet despite the eloquence and authority of their reasoned argument, they could still not let go of leader. In a parallel way, there is a growing group of researchers seeking to push forward with the notion of leadership-as-practice 3 —where leader is problematic, and notions of agency are rightfully given much greater attention.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
T3 - Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
BT - After Leadership
A2 - Carroll, Brigid
A2 - Firth, Josh
A2 - Wilson, Suze
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -