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The Role of Imagination in Understanding Leadership
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The Role of Imagination in Understanding Leadership

by Nathan W. Harter
December 2023
Beginner
164 pages
5h 39m
English
Routledge
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8 Lights, camera, action The ceremonial function of hearings and trials

DOI: 10.4324/9781003374831-8

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Shakespeare wrote that all the world’s a stage. Maybe he was right. The sociologist Erving Goffman (1978) demonstrated, for example, how everyday life can be understood as a presentation of self, using many of the same conceptual frameworks familiar to thespians, such as being backstage and on-stage. To a great extent – even more than we seem to realize – public life manifests as one great, inchoate exhibition, filled with drama, where each of us practices some form of impression management. As we pass through our world, we are simultaneously actor and audience in a theater that is without script or director. This ...

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