{"product_id":"the-connecting-leader-serving-concurrently-as-a-leader-and-a-follower-9781648022043","title":"The Connecting Leader: Serving Concurrently as a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrevious books of the \u003cem\u003eLeadership Horizon Series\u003c\/em\u003e showed unequivocally how both leaders and followers play an equally important part in the co-production of leadership outcomes, and how leader and follower identities are fluid, so that the same individual can enact both at different times. This book stretches the notion of leadership a step further by exploring the co-enactment of both roles, identities, and positions of leader and follower by one same individual. This individual is defined as a connecting leader, as in this co-enactment he\/she functions as connector between different leadership relationships. The concept of connecting leader emerges from the observation that most individuals in organizations engage in the leaderfollower role co-enactment: managers, pulled between executives and reportees; CEOs, between the board and the head of departments; or employees involved in cross functional teams, leading and following in different degrees, subject to their expertise. Yet, despite its pervasiveness this concept is at best under theorized by the literature, which, dominated by dyadic and romanticized views, mostly presents the roles as enacted by separate individuals facing each other. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo advance our understanding of connecting leaders the editor proposes to shift our focus on leadership in three ways: to unpack the interconnectedness and interplay of leader and follower identities; to investigate the tensions arising from the co-enactment and how these can be overcome; to widen the way in which we study leadership, through new configurations (e.g. leadership triads) and ontologies; and finally to consider the similarities between leading and following. The book chapters are organized to mirror these areas of exploration. Understanding leadership from a perspective that acknowledges that many individuals in organizations are not just leaders or followers, but both, democratizes the way we theorize leadership, and moves us further away from the temptation to romanticize it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Connecting Leader\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART I: INTERCONNECTED LEADER-FOLLOWER IDENTITIES. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom a Leader and a Follower to Shared Leadership: An Identity-Based Structural Model for Shared Leadership Emergence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBridging Gaps in Organizations: Leaders as Entrepreneurs of Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART II: JANUSIAN TENSIONS. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParadox, Leadership, and the Connecting Leader\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeddling in the Middle: The Middle Manager Yo-Yo on a Constant Move\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART III: THE CONNECTING LEADER IN PRACTICE. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Connecting Leaders to Connecting Leadership: A Study of Interaction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Connecting Leader and Managerial Stances at Work: A Practice Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART IV: LEADER AND FOLLOWER AS ONE. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeadership and Followership as One: Connecting Leaders in the Military\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEveryday Leadership and Engaged Followership: Two Sides of the Same Construct\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Authors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Information Age Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585872789847,"sku":"9781648022043","price":47.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781648022043.jpg?v=1756489593","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-connecting-leader-serving-concurrently-as-a-leader-and-a-follower-9781648022043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}