Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Doubt, uncertainty and vulnerability in leadership: using fiction to enable reflection and voice

Warwick, Rob

University of Chichester Business School, UK

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Abstract

Exploration of our organisational life has much to gain from fiction so as to reflexively engage with provisional processes of uncertainty, doubt and paradox. These are often neglected qualities of how we go on together in our organizational lives. Taking an autoethnographic approach I present one narrative of a fraught meeting that I was part of to explore my leadership development. I do this in relation to Homer, Shakespeare and AllenPoe to explore leadership issues of: paradox and how we become enmeshed in unfolding events; the interaction between a leader’s future intent and how this plays out in action. In doing this I offer an invitation to explore literature that speaks to and develops our practice of leadership and how we might develop and communicate useful insights.

Metadata

Journal Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Volume 14 
Issue 4 
Issue date 2016 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 127-137
ISSN 1532-5555