1. Chicken vs Leadership
Group 8
19 May 2010
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2. Presentation overview
✤ Introduction to presentation
✤ Text: Fantasies of Leadership: Identity Work
✤ Text: Managers Doing Leadership: The Extra-Ordinarization of the Mundane
✤ Text: The great disappearing act: difficulties in doing ‘‘leadership’’
✤ Discussion
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3. ✤ Text: Fantasies of Leadership: Identity Work
The concept of leadership could be seen as a
fantasy substituting real influence
Romantic illusion of leadership
What we believe/think vs. what we do
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4. ✤ Text: Managers Doing Leadership: The Extra-Ordinarization of the Mundane
Individuals in formal positions execute fairly
much the same mundane acts as regular
employees do.
Mundane acts appear to be “special” when done
by an individual in a formal position.
Formal position - No title, No Leadership
Leadership can be seen as mundane.
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5. ✤ Text: The great disappearing act: difficulties in doing ‘‘leadership’’
What managers say mismatches what they do
Romantic illusion of leadership
What we believe/think vs. what we do
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6. Thoughts...
For discussion
✤ Does Leadership Matter?
✤ What is it?
✤ Where does it exist?
✤ What does it entail?
✤ What is Leading vs Leadership?
✤ How do YOU do Leadership?
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7. Does ‘it’ exist?
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8. Does ‘it’ exist?
The perfect leader:
✤ Male
✤ Preferably 50 +
✤ Top of the hirarchy
✤ Has a secretary (female)
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