Highlighting the Plural: Leading Amidst Romance(s)

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JOURNAL OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/14697017.2021.1917491

Viviane Sergi, Maria Lusiani, A. Langley

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The current crisis makes leadership more visible and allows us to reflect on how leadership is conceived. In this essay, we consider how leadership has been represented during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in articles published in the business and general press. We show that, while images of heroic leadership are prevalent in this popular discourse – reminding us vividly of the romance of leadership – other elements, such as references to plural and decentred forms of leadership can be seen as also coexisting in this discourse, while not necessarily being explicitly acknowledged. Opting for a plural, relational and processual conception of leadership allows us to reveal these under-recognized elements. This leads us to propose that these elements are not specific to leadership in times of crises, but are always constitutive of leading in practice. We conclude by arguing that renewing understandings of leadership may require that we acknowledge simultaneously the inevitable presence of romance(s) in how we approach this phenomenon as well as its collective and relational accomplishment. Referring, in turn, to the central phenomenon as leading rather than as leadership may help us reach beyond the seductiveness of the romance(s) of leadership to capture its inherent relationality.

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强调复数:在浪漫中领导

当前的危机让领导力变得更加明显，并让我们反思领导力是如何被构想出来的。在本文中，我们考虑了在2019冠状病毒病大流行的头几个月里，商业和普通媒体上发表的文章是如何体现领导力的。我们表明，虽然英雄领导的形象在这种流行的话语中普遍存在——生动地提醒我们领导的浪漫——但其他元素，如对多元和非中心领导形式的引用，也可以被视为在这种话语中共存，尽管不一定得到明确承认。选择一个多元的、关系的和过程的领导概念，使我们能够揭示这些未被认识到的因素。这使我们提出，这些因素并不是危机时期领导所特有的，而是实践中领导的组成部分。最后，我们认为，更新对领导力的理解可能需要我们同时承认，在我们如何处理这一现象以及其集体和关系成就时，浪漫不可避免地存在。反过来，将核心现象称为“领导”而不是“领导”，可能有助于我们超越领导的浪漫魅力，抓住其内在的关系。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Change Management is a multidisciplinary and international forum for critical, mainstream and alternative contributions - focusing as much on psychology, ethics, culture and behaviour as on structure and process. JCM is a platform for open and challenging dialogue and a thorough critique of established as well as alternative practices. JCM is aiming to provide all authors with a first decision within six weeks of submission.