6 AWAKENING THE NEED FOR CHANGE
Introduction
A fundamental act of leadership is what Alvesson et al. (2017) refer to as “everyday reframing” or what Dilts (2003) calls “awakening”. This process, for example, may involve eliciting in leadership prospects an introspective mindset to identify behavioural, emotional and/or cognitive strategies and their associated beliefs and values that generate impoverished leadership styles and weaken follower/leadership engagement dynamics. This chapter explores this awakening process and identifies some key organisational factors, such as the idea of “managing in the moment” (Parker, 2013) and connects these with the dominant model of transactional leadership. The idea that culture ...
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