Making Common Sense: Leadership as Meaning-making in a Community of Practice

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Table of Contents
5. Acknowledgments
6. Preface
7. Introduction
   1. The Importance of Making Meaning
   2. Applying Meaning to Leadership
8. Discussion of Terms
   1. Meaning
   2. Meaning-making
   3. Community of Practice
9. People in Positions of Authority: A New View of Five Concepts
   1. From Social Influence to Social Meaning-making
   2. From a Dominant Individual Leader Acting on Followers to People Participating in a Shared Process
   3. From Motivation to Act to Frameworks Within Which to Act
   4. From the Authority Figure as De Facto Leader to the Authority Figure as a Participant in a Process of Leadership
   5. From “How Do I Take Charge and Make Things Happen?” to “How Do I Participate in an Effective Process of Leadership?”
10. Implications: So What Is Leadership Development?
11. Conclusion: Changing Constructs of Leadership
12. Bibliography