2RETHINKING LEADERSHIP

DOI: 10.4324/9781003341727-3

Doubt and disillusionment

In this chapter, I make good on my promise to share with you the sense that I am currently making of leadership and the implications that this has for my own practice in relation to leadership development. I say currently because my praxis has shifted dramatically in recent years, and it will no doubt develop further in the years to come. This is neither a sign of indecisiveness, on my part, nor lack of conviction; it’s an acknowledgement that my current way of thinking is no more than that, a way of thinking – a good enough truth for me, for now. My sense-making of leading and leadership is an emerging amalgamation of my lived experience, augmented by ongoing, reflexive ...

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