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- Title
Seducing Leadership: Stories of Leadership Development.
- Authors
Sinclair, Amanda
- Abstract
This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction. Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to which seduction is a gendered performance. I conclude that, while gender and power are defining elements and constraints in how seductive pedagogical relations are constructed, there are opportunities for experimentation and display that potentially subvert gendered stereotypes. Seeing the seduction in leadership can help us understand leadership and leadership teaching better, and can open the way to doing it differently — to experimentation and innovation.
- Subjects
LEADERSHIP; CHANGE agents; LEADERS; MANAGEMENT; SEDUCTION; GENDER
- Publication
Gender, Work & Organization, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 2, p266
- ISSN
0968-6673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00441.x