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Emergency Leadership: The Lived Experience, R. Jeffery Maxfield, Eric Russell
Emergency Leadership: The Lived Experience, R. Jeffery Maxfield, Eric Russell
R. Jeffery Maxfield
This qualitative phenomenological study set forth to discover lived experience associated with becoming a leader. The researchers recruited four executive level leaders from multiple emergency and public service organizations to participate in the study. The study emerged from a thorough review of the literature and advances the knowledge of academic leadership theory. The study’s participants willingly took part in audio-recorded interviews using a script developed by the researchers. To discover how different leaders interpreted their lived experience of becoming a leader, the researchers employed a phenomenological design, allowing for a rich understanding of the participants’ experience. The coding and …
The Leadership Leap: A Leadership Model, R. Jeffery Maxfield, Gary B. Noll, Rodger Broome
The Leadership Leap: A Leadership Model, R. Jeffery Maxfield, Gary B. Noll, Rodger Broome
R. Jeffery Maxfield
This paper examines the ontological perspective of leadership and leadership education. Leadership, as proposed by Maxfield, Broomé, & Fisher (2015) in the LEAP leadership model is explored in the concepts of legitimacy, ethical and value-based behaviors, affect (emotional intelligence) and persistence. The need for changing leadership curricula and pedagogical paradigms are also explored.