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Finding George Bailey: Wonderful Leaders, Wonderful Lives, Mark Light
Finding George Bailey: Wonderful Leaders, Wonderful Lives, Mark Light
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
He is underpaid and overworked, his organization lives from payroll to payroll with an overtaxed and underpowered staff and a contentious board of directors. He sacrifices for the mission, but is frustrated about forgone personal dreams. He is George Bailey, the central character in Frank Capra's film It's a Wonderful Life and he practices Leadership for Good by being a mission centered, visionary, results driven, and adaptive difference maker. Through a construct-building non-generalizable mixed methods study with two concurrent, but independent phases—instrumental case study and Delphi—this study searched for real-life Baileys, to test whether or not Leadership for Good extends …
A Communicative Theory Of Leadership Practice, Kathryn Ann Gaines
A Communicative Theory Of Leadership Practice, Kathryn Ann Gaines
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
Addressing three problems in the field of leadership studies - fragmentation across disciplines; emphasis on individual leaders in titled positions; failure to identify a coherent set of actions for performing leadership - this study develops a framework of core communicative leadership practices. It is premised on a philosophical analysis of leadership as a social strategy for securing action in service of interests claimed by or for a community - an action performed intentionally via symbolic behavior accessible to any and all members of a community. This definition serves as a heuristic for the development of a systematic theory of leadership …