Titlebook: Gender, Authenticity and Leadership; Thinking with Arendt Rita A. Gardiner Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Introduction,m different walks of life. Each gave a passionate speech that included thanking friends and colleagues for their part in the honoree’s success. However, the last speaker took a different route. In her speech she said ‘I’m an authentic leader.’ My immediate, visceral response was: ‘Isn’t that for oth

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Authentic Leadership,xamining current scholarship, I suggest there is a tendency to privilege a leader’s self-knowledge. Such an approach may serve to suppress a plurality of perspectives and, in turn, work against the creation of a meaningful environment. Conversely, thinking with Arendt complements existing scholarshi

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Enlightened Virtue,ed (pp. 58–65). In his opinion, ‘enlightened’ freedom was composed of three components: the ability to think for oneself; the ability to think from the standpoint of others; and, lastly, the capacity to think and act in concert with one’s beliefs. In this chapter, I examine how Enlightenment ideas a

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Troubling Method,onsive orientation necessitates a willingness to think from different perspectives so as to enrich one’s understanding. Arendt described this pursuit as ‘thinking without a bannister’, an activity that requires a person to move beyond the constraints of their own assumptions. As part of my attempt t

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Telling Tales Out of School,tory … Life itself is full of tales’ (p. 129). For Arendt, narrative enables us to find meaning, and gain a sense of who we are in relation to others. In this chapter, I explore the situated, embodied nature of leadership through the narrative accounts provided by ten senior women leaders in higher

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Themes, when institutional objectives are at odds with personal convictions. The second theme relates to care and relationships. Gender and embodiment constitutes the third theme. Intersectional identity constitutes the fourth, and anxiety represents the final theme. Then, I briefly discuss two outlying th

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