..WERNER ERHARD

The Handbook is an invaluable resource to individuals, centers, institutes, and libraries to support the growing demand for courses in leadership and ensure that such courses and instruction are developed with multiple considerations and best practices in mind." From Sage Publications

 

Chapter 16, "Creating Leaders: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model", by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger

The quotes below are from the editor’s introduction of a chapter titled “Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model” written by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger in the book “The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being”.  The book is edited by Harvard Business School’s Scott Snook (Senior Lecturer), Nitin Nohria (Dean of the Harvard Business School and George F. Baker Professor of Administration), and Rakesh Khurana (Dean of Harvard College and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development).

“How does one teach leadership in a way that not only informs them about leadership but also transforms them into actually being leaders?  …this eclectic group of scholars argues for adopting a decidedly ontological approach to leadership education that promises to leave students actually being leaders.  Contrasting their ontological approach described as being and action as experienced "on the court" with more traditional perspectives where leadership is observed and commented on "from the stands," this chapter presents a rigorous theory of leadership education that begins and ends with the following bold promises to students:

• You will leave this course being who you need to be to be a leader.
• You will leave this course with what it takes to exercise leadership effectively.

“…by following a rigorous, phenomenologically based methodology, students have the opportunity to create for themselves a context that leaves them actually being a leader and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression."

The chapter described above by the editors is available for download at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1681682.

Scott A. Snook is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Tukman Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School.

Nitin Nohria is the Dean of the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit. He is the author of numerous books and articles.

Rakesh Khurana is the Dean of Harvard College and the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College. He is the author of numerous important articles and books in the areas of leadership and management.

 

Publisher

Sage Publishing: Founded in 1965, SAGE is a leading independent, academic and professional publisher of innovative, high-quality content.

From the publisher: "The last twenty-five years have witnessed an explosion in the field of leadership education. This volume brings together leading international scholars across disciplines to chronicle the current state of leadership education and establish a solid foundation on which to grow the field. It encourages leadership educators to explore and communicate more clearly the theoretical underpinnings and conceptual assumptions on which their approaches are based. It provides a forum for the discussion of current issues and challenges in the field and examines the above objectives within the broader perspective of rapid changes in technology, organizational structure, and diversity."

 

Links

Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model, Social Science Research Network

Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge, First Look: February 28, 2012: Creating Leaders: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model

National Library of Australia, The Handbook For Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being

Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Recommended Reading: "The last twenty-five years have witnessed an explosion in the field of leadership education. This volume brings together leading international scholars across disciplines to chronicle the current state of leadership education and establish a solid foundation on which to grow the field."

Academy of Management: Learning & Education review of The Handbook For Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being

Being A Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model

Stanford Library Services: Bringing together leading international scholars across disciplines for the dual purpose of chronicling the current state of leadership education and establishing a solid foundation upon which to grow the field, the text explores approaches to teaching leadership, the conceptual, theoretical and disciplinary roots upon which these approaches are based and what are the inherent strengths and weaknesses of each approach. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource to individuals, centers, institutes, and libraries to support the growing demand for courses in leadership and ensure that such courses and instruction are developed with multiple considerations and best practices in mind.

Research Gate - Creating Leaders: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model

The Handbook For Teaching Leadership

UCLA - The Handbook For Teaching Leadership

Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model: Harvard Business School

What is Leadership: The Ontological / Phenomenological Model

Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership

Creating Leaders: A Pilot Pre/Post Evaluation of an Ontological/Phenomenological Model

 

 

Erhard, Jensen and Granger's Chapter has been cited in the following academic publications:

Management Education for the World: A Vision for Business Schools Serving People and the Planet, by Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava, Jonas Haertle

The Needs of Participants in Leadership Development Programs: A Qualitative and Quantitative Cross-Country Investigation, by William A. Gentry, Regina H. Eckert, Vijayan P. Munusamy, Sarah A. Stawiski, and Jacob L. Martin in the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

The Science of Leading Yourself: A Missing Piece in the Health Care Transformation Puzzle, by Wiley W. Souba in the Open Journal of Leadership

Critical Leadership and Music Educational Practice, by Patrick K. Schmidt in the journal Theory Into Practice

Faculty Development for Leadership and Management, by Tim Swanwick and Judy McKimmin the book Faculty Development in the Health Professions

The PRME Curriculum Tree: A Framework for Responsible Management Education in Undergraduate Business Degree Programmes, by Alexander Hope; In book: Redefining Success: Integrating Sustainability into Management Education, Edition: 1st, Chapter: 4, Publisher: Routledge, Editors: Patricia M. Flynn, Tay Keong Tan, Milenko Gudić, 2018

Deregulation of the Downstream Sector of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry: The Role of Leadership, by Godfrey Nkogbu, European Journal of Business and Management. 7. 35-46; 2015

Developing globally responsible leaders in business schools: A vision and transformational practice for the journey ahead, by Katrin Muff, The Journal of Management Development.; 2013

Are You Ready to Be a Leader? The Ontology of Leadership, by Juan Carlos Puyana MD, Timothy Billar MD. In Leadership in Surgery; 2015