In Leadership, Look to the Practices Not to the Individual

Joseph A. Raelin

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2020, 1-6

Abstract: This article introduces readers to a new approach to leadership that has come on the scene in recent years, and it is called “Leadership-as-Practice.” As an offshoot of the so-called “practice turn” in the social sciences, referring to the study of everyday activities, it challenges some of our traditional views of leadership that have relied on the grandeur of particular traits and behaviors of gifted individuals, who are accorded power over those called followers. And followers are those told to take their place in line. In leadership-as-practice, or L-A-P, we look for leadership in everyday practices, those regularized and sometime emergent activities performed by various actors within an organization or community. In L-A-P, to find leadership, we must look to the practices within which it is occurring.

Keywords: leadership; practice; leadership development; leadership ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 M10 M12 M14 M53 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.20935/AL34

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