{"id":15334,"date":"2026-02-11T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koeky.nl\/boeken\/product\/diffracting-collaborative-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:53:08","slug":"diffracting-collaborative-leadership","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/koeky.nl\/boeken\/product\/diffracting-collaborative-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Diffracting Collaborative Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pragmatist Project<\/p>\n<p>Leadership, as an area of research, seems to be a source of endless fascination. So much has been written about it, and yet the questions keep coming. It is almost as if we are asking the wrong questions. <\/p>\n<p>In Diffracting Collaborative Leadership, Barbara Simpson takes a novel approach to tackling this problem, proposing that leadership in organizations may be understood as a complementary duality of &#8216;leaders&#8217; and &#8216;leading&#8217;. Whereas questions about &#8216;leaders&#8217; are already well researched, the same cannot be said for the social processes of &#8216;leading&#8217;. Familiar research methodologies, and the theories that inform them, seek to represent &#8216;reality&#8217; as stable, or at least temporarily stabilized structures and entities, but as such, they are not well equipped to deal with the performative fluidities of &#8216;leading&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Grappling with the slipperiness of a world-on-the-move requires a serious commitment to ontologically processual research that can participate with the flow of lived experience. The author draws on Pragmatism as a systematic, ontologically processual philosophy, using it to diffract the experiences of the senior management team in an arts-based company. This analysis explores &#8216;leading&#8217; as a creative, collaborative process of future-making that arises from uncertainties. Leadership then, is what we do when we don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Auteur: Prof Barbara (Professor in Leadership and Organisation Dynamics, Professor in Leadership and Organisation Dynamics, Strathclyde Business School) Simpson<\/p>\n<p>Taal: Engels<\/p>\n<p>Bindwijze: Gebonden<\/p>\n<p>Rubriek: <\/p>\n<p>Leverbaarheid: Direct leverbaar<\/p>\n<p>Uitgever: <\/p>\n<p>Verschijningsdatum: <\/p>\n<p>Trefwoord:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership, as an area of research, seems to be a source of endless fascination. So much has been written about it, and yet the questions keep coming. It is almost as if we are asking the wrong questions. <\/p>\n<p>In Diffracting Collaborative Leadership, Barbara Simpson takes a novel approach to tackling this problem, proposing that leadership in organizations may be understood as a complementary duality of &#8216;leaders&#8217; and &#8216;leading&#8217;. 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