The Event’s the Thing: Brief Encounters With the Leaderful Moment

摘要: This chapter is grounded in a radical reconceptualisation of leadership based on the process philosophy particularly Alfred Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze. Rather than focusing primarily individual leader, or even dyadic relationship between leaders followers, lens frames as an unfolding, emergent process; continuous coming into being. Conceptualising from this perspective, we suggest, stretches field potential contributors to its realisation, encouraging richer appreciation role played by contextual aspects, such history, culture geographic situatedness. In promoting view, it joins recent work Collinson (2005), Grint Shotter Wood (2005) Koivunen (2007), well supplementing extending others organisation communication theory (Graen Scandura, 1987; Hosking, 1988; Dansereau, 1995; Barker, 2001; Gronn, 2002; Pearce Conger, 2003; Fairhurst, 2005) who are forging theoretical in-roads how less individualistic more process-oriented approach might offer distinctive insights what paradigmatically limited limiting ‘positive’ approaches (Bryman, 1986; 1995).