From laurels to learners: leadership with virtue

Antonacopoulou, Elena ORCID: 0000-0002-0872-7883 and Bento, Regina F (2018) From laurels to learners: leadership with virtue. Journal of Management Development, 37 (8). pp. 624-633.

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Abstract

<jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title> <jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to leadership development founded on the principle of the Leader-as-Learner: a reflective human who pursues the 4C – virtues of courage, commitment, confidence and curiosity, rather than the laurels of traditional approaches of heroic leadership.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title> <jats:p>Exploring art-based methods and fostering a new approach to leadership development: Leaders-as-Learners.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title> <jats:p>In this paper, studies and theoretical findings from the literature are discussed.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research limitations/implications</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper includes extending life stories and modes of learning by projecting possible selves as leaders, to learn the daily practice of leadership.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title> <jats:p>Leadership involves not only the art of judgment but refines it through a learning orientation to confront volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity conditions.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Social implications</jats:title> <jats:p>Leadership is not limited to organizations and in relation to work practices. It is a central aspect in all social affairs and integral to building societies which serve, through leaders, the common good.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title> <jats:p>An approach to leadership development that supports human flourishing and locates leadership among ordinary people who do extra-ordinary things.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Clinical Research
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2019 11:13
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2024 01:15
DOI:	10.1108/jmd-12-2016-0269
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3030916