The GuruBook

                     

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP

 

                     

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the third and last pillar of The GuruBook : authentic leadership .

The term authenticity  has been the subject of study and interpretation right back to the time of the Greek philosophers and the works of, for example, William Shakespeare (“ To thine own self be true.” — Polonius in Hamlet ) and other great artists and thinkers.

For Shakespeare, authenticity was the ability to be in control of one’ s own life and to be in a position to “ know yourself.” 

Construction of the bridge from the “ forefathers of authenticity”  to today’ s management philosophies began back in the 1960s, when authenticity was described as the way in which an organization could ...