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Abrasive Leaders Who Changed: Learning From Their Experience, Lori J. Tucker, Peter E. Williams
Abrasive Leaders Who Changed: Learning From Their Experience, Lori J. Tucker, Peter E. Williams
School of Educational Leadership
The purpose of this paper is to understand the experience of three formerly abrasive leaders who improved their conduct and management strategies following a workplace intervention.
Narrative inquiry, a personal and collaborative research method, revealed the experience of three leaders in their shift from destructive behaviors. Concepts from adult development, specifically Kegan's constructive-development theory (CDT) and Mezirow's transformative learning theory (TL), provided a lens to better understand the leaders' personal development.
This study culminated with three co-composed narrative accounts and an analysis of narrative threads. The focus of this paper is the interpretive narrative thread analysis. The developmental experience of …