We asked 30 top executives (CEOs, COOs, and Presidents) to describe their paths to and in office. Our purpose was to explore how executives practice leadership in the way they discuss their experience. We identified three structures that interviewees used: the full proof, a thesis statement backed by evidence; the narrative plot, a trajectory toward a goal; and the signature story, a defining leadership experience. We argue that structuration proves leadership; that is, full proofs and narrative plots communicate dependability and signature stories convey realism. We also constructed paradigmatic narratives or representative experiences of leadership, which suggest an experiential curriculum of leadership. Our findings show ways of working ...
In this article we discuss several lessons we\u27ve learned from thousands of venturers about what i...
The purpose of this research was to study the lived experience of being a strategic leader, describe...
Many studies in the management discipline have focused either on what it takes to be a business lead...
Leadership scholars and researchers have still not come to an agreement as to what the nature of lea...
This paper aims to argue that narratives, skillfully deployed by senior leaders in an organization, ...
Purpose - This paper aims to present theoretical and empirical foundations for the use of a particul...
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100201/1/BBA_Berger_Fall1996_Noel-Tichy.FinalPDF.pd
Many leaders of values-based organizations already possess the requisite passion for the core values...
Multinational corporate leaders acknowledge that a lack of business direction by senior leadership r...
The top executive personality literature has grown significantly in recent years. We review this lit...
During the last thirty years a multitude of leadership theories have been set forth; however, eviden...
This qualitative grounded theory study explores how ten top leaders experienced their learning, whet...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore subjective life histories and leadership journeys ...
Our leadership framework has its origins in a research project we, the authors, began in 1983. We w...
Author's pre-print version. The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the ...
In this article we discuss several lessons we\u27ve learned from thousands of venturers about what i...
The purpose of this research was to study the lived experience of being a strategic leader, describe...
Many studies in the management discipline have focused either on what it takes to be a business lead...
Leadership scholars and researchers have still not come to an agreement as to what the nature of lea...
This paper aims to argue that narratives, skillfully deployed by senior leaders in an organization, ...
Purpose - This paper aims to present theoretical and empirical foundations for the use of a particul...
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100201/1/BBA_Berger_Fall1996_Noel-Tichy.FinalPDF.pd
Many leaders of values-based organizations already possess the requisite passion for the core values...
Multinational corporate leaders acknowledge that a lack of business direction by senior leadership r...
The top executive personality literature has grown significantly in recent years. We review this lit...
During the last thirty years a multitude of leadership theories have been set forth; however, eviden...
This qualitative grounded theory study explores how ten top leaders experienced their learning, whet...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore subjective life histories and leadership journeys ...
Our leadership framework has its origins in a research project we, the authors, began in 1983. We w...
Author's pre-print version. The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the ...
In this article we discuss several lessons we\u27ve learned from thousands of venturers about what i...
The purpose of this research was to study the lived experience of being a strategic leader, describe...
Many studies in the management discipline have focused either on what it takes to be a business lead...