“To study leadership must be to study voice, power, words, discourse – and not just those of the elite. Leaders have no divine right to exercise absolute authority over followers. Rather, the challenge is to delineate the limits of their power; to explore the sense-making processes whereby this power is enacted in the minds and lives of leaders and follower alike; to ascertain what it is that holds people in thrall to flawed visions and dysfunctional leaders; and to continually question and challenge the legitimacy of a leader centric view of the social world we inhabit.”
Reference
Tourish, D. (2013). The dark side of transformational leadership: A critical perspective. New York, NY: Routledge.
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