Implications: So What Is Leadership Development?
Leadership development has traditionally been concerned with the individual manager who has authority and is held responsible; it has typically aimed to improve his or her ability to direct and influence others. If leadership is understood as a social meaning-making process, however, our concept of leadership development changes.
We discuss our perspective on leadership development—and what this means for programs—at length in another paper (Palus & Drath, in press). We will only raise a few keys points here.
To begin with, if leadership is seen as meaning-making in a community of practice, then leadership development must involve more than the individual; in fact, it probably should not be primarily ...
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