Through Their Own Words: Towards a New Understanding of Leadership Through Metaphors

This paper suggests that metaphors are essential to understanding leadership. Metaphors can serve as underlying, organizing structures of leadership thinking and experience, and they can be mobilized in order to accomplish interpersonal goals. The literature on leadership abounds with metaphors, suc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor, Oberlechner, Thomas
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Center for Public Leadership 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55917