Leadership & Organization Development Journal articles from November 1996

Leadership & Organization Development Journal archives from November 1996

Personality, life experience and leadership capability.
November 1, 1996... Introduction In this paper the authors postulate that personality is a product of the way an individual's emotional life has developed and what defence mechanisms develop against psychic pain. They argue that the formation and intensity of...

Leadership and management: Oedipal struggles in voluntary organizations.
November 1, 1996... Introduction Why is the relationship between the board and the staff in the management of voluntary organizations so inherently unstable? Is this, as some believe, a fatal flaw, an unnatural state of affairs, crying out for reform of charity...

Narcissism and leadership: some differences in male and female leaders.
November 1, 1996... The myth There are two protagonists in the Greek myth about Narcissus: Narcissus and Echo (Thielst, 1989). Narcissus was a very beautiful young man, so spoiled by his mother that he believed himself to be one of the gods. He was admired by...

Female leadership: some personal and professional reflections.
November 1, 1996... Wisdom is the quality of knowing everything, deep inside your soul about the human foulness in yourself (Piet Hein) Background Several different starting points created the background for this paper. My immediate motivation starts from...

Greek mythology as means of organizational analysis: the battle at Larkfield.
November 1, 1996... Introduction Though the use of narrative fiction and ancient mythology has become an important means in my organization consultancy and writing (Sievers, 1989; 1993; 1994; 1995a; 1996a; 1996b), this essay steps on to a new dimension, in so...

The darker side of the entrepreneur.
November 1, 1996... Introduction The role of the entrepreneur in the global economy is important, whether as an innovative hi-tech start-up in the USA, or a garment producer in Laos. But what about the entrepreneurial personality? To what extent is it possible...

Learning for leadership.
November 1, 1996... Introduction Kenneth Rice published Learning for Leadership: Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations in 1965. The book is a mixture of report of a process and theoretical reflection on it. The process later evolved into the so-called...

Psychoanalytic contributions to authority and leadership issues.
November 1, 1996... Introduction A search of the psychoanalytic literature with an eye on authority and leadership issues gives a surprisingly meagre trawl. Some Freud (1921), no Klein, the expected Bion, Jaques, Menzies Lyth and Money Kyrle (see Bion, 1961;...