Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 17 Issue 6

Personality, life experience and leadership capability

Olya Khaleelee, Ralph Woolf

A critical element of leadership is the capacity to tolerate uncertainty, both one’s own and that of followers. The larger and more complex the enterprise and the more responsible…

Leadership and management: Oedipal struggles in voluntary organizations

Tim Dartington

Investigates the relationship of employees to founding board members in voluntary organizations. Argues that unresolved conflicts are the source of much of the difficulty…

Narcissism and leadership: some differences in male and female leaders

Jarl Jørstad

Develops from the Greek myth about Narcissus and Echo some contemporary aspects of normal and pathological narcissism. Narcissism is part of a normal developmental phase and…

Female leadership: some personal and professional reflections

Zanne Lorenzen

Reports on the personal experience of an active leadership in a stressful and deskilling setting. Suggests that gender is integral to personal history and profession in leadership…

Greek mythology as means of organizational analysis: the battle at Larkfield

Burkard Sievers

Looks at the case of leadership succession from a man to a woman. Uses the myth of Athene and Zeus to illustrate this point. Presents an explanation and an understanding of the…

The darker side of the entrepreneur

S.D. McKenna

Investigates the role of the entrepreneurial personality in the global economy, based on consulting work carried out on one fast‐growing small business, Distant Learning Ltd…

Learning for leadership

Wesley Carr

Addresses the question of whether individuals, using psychoanalytic insights, can learn from their experience of leadership. Believes that leaders can develop insights in an…

Psychoanalytic contributions to authority and leadership issues

Anton Obholzer

Provides a review of the psychoanalytic contributions to authority and leadership issues. Notes how the personality of the leader can affect the responses of his/her followers…