Introduction

Piers Ibbotson

A chapter in The Illusion of Leadership, 2008, pp 1-4 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Most leaders emerge by accident rather than intent, even the powerful and important ones, because most people don’t want the job. Standing up in front of others and persuading them to do something can be diffi cult and even frightening. People will do it because there is something they want: not “power” in the abstract, but to make their fragmentary vision of a possible future happen in the world. They need people to help them co-create it, and they will gather as followers those who share their response to the fragment they have communicated. It needs only a few – twelve to twenty-five – and they begin to co-create like a theater ensemble, cascading their infl uence through a whole organization or society.

Keywords: Creative Process; Creative Vision; Market Sentiment; Theater Ensemble; Craft Skill (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230202009_1

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