How to Become a Globally Responsible Leader: Rites of Passage and Transitional Space

Maryse Dubouloy

Chapter 5 in Leadership Perspectives, 2008, pp 58-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter treats the idea that to become a globally responsible leader (EFMD, 2006), it is not enough for the future CEO to acquire traditional skills and knowledge, or even to gain in open-mindedness, relational abilities, self-awareness and intuition, in the successive steps of his boundaryless career. He or she must develop Virtues’ such as autonomy, reflexivity, compassion, and attain wisdom. Simultaneously, a leader’s real need is to rediscover themselves, their own desires and creative potential, when they are heading for conformism and false-self. They can achieve this by turning their progress into a true initiatory itinerary. The individual is the only one who can find into themselves the required resources for this transformation. However it could not be a Utopia to imagine that companies can also contribute to this fundamental change, implementing, for each stage of this tough journey, rites of passage (Von Gennep, 1981) and transitional space (Winnicott, 1971) which help people to go through and work out renunciation and ordeals. I shall illustrate this with the example of expatriation.

Keywords: Critical Thinking; Ethical Leadership; Global Compact; Responsible Leader; Transitional Space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584068_5

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