Leadership

A lot has been written about leadership over the ages. Most of that work focuses solely on the people who hold designated supervisory positions within organizations, examining their personalities and behaviors to better understand leadership. In today's organizations, however, we need more leaders at more levels to get things done, including more leadership from people who do not hold such positions. Given that my research has taken a "post-heroic" view of leadership, focusing on all of us as leaders rather than a single leader at the top of an organization, a division or etc. I care because if more people were to see the leader within them, they would do more great things in the world. Why do some people come to think of themselves as leaders and others never do? Why are some people seen (and reinforced) as leaders within an organization, community, or a group and why others never are? How might holding a leader identity help you and how can you express your leadership in a way that will have other people seeing you as a leader too? These are the questions that energize my research in this area.