Professor Joe Raelin, the Donald Gordon Visiting Professor of Leadership at the University of Cape Town, provided the keynote address at SIETAR Japan’s 36th Annual Conference, “Leadership and Collaboration in Intercultural Contexts.” In this review article, Prof. Raelin provides an...

Executive management as a distinct occupational category from general management seems to be becoming increasingly professionalized. From a power perspective, CEOs dominate the decision-making apparatus of our major business enterprises. From an attribute approach to professionalization, there...

The practice perspective of leadership de-emphasizes purpose and rather recognizes pre-reflective forms of intentionality carried out in embodied practices that may be subsequently guided by democratic, emancipatory, and reflexive processes. Although leadership-as-practice should be classified...

In this article, the author introduces the leadership approach known as “leaderful practice,” an alternative to the traditional trait-based approach of individual leadership. Leaderful practice is shown to sustain an ethical infrastructure based on democratic principles. It is democracy not...

This article endeavors to develop an emerging paradigm of leadership for our organizations known as quot;leaderful practice.quot; Leaderful practice constitutes a direct challenge to the conventional view of leadership as quot;being out in front.quot; It is submitted that in the 21st Century...