Addressing complex problems requires collective action, and enabling collective action requires good leadership. From a scholarly perspective, good leadership can be understood as emerging from and being enacted as virtues such as courage, wisdom, humanity, and justice. However, it is unclear how this scholarly understanding of good leadership aligns (or not) to public understanding of good leadership. This paper takes the top 25 TED talks on leadership as a public perspective of good leadership and analyzes them to assess which virtues are used explicitly and metaphorically to describe good leadership. Dichotomous views between scholarly and public views of good leadership are flagged, and a notion of good leadership as mapped in the public domain is distilled. Implications, limitations, and future research are discussed."
History
Publication title
Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings
Volume
2020 (No.1)
ISSN
2151-6561
Department/School
TSBE
Publisher
Academy of Management
Place of publication
United States
Event title
80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Date of Event (Start Date)
2020-08-07
Date of Event (End Date)
2020-08-11
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Workplace and organisational ethics (excl. business ethics); Management