附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-105) and index.
Making our way through life -- 1. Classic representations of leadership : Task-related discussions of leadership ; Power differentials and egalitarianism ; Great men and mythical leaders ; Attributes, personal characteristics, and character traits ; Comparisons of men and women leaders ; An emerging approach to leadership -- 2. A framework for analysis of the leader persona : The leader persona and individual identity ; A theory of leader identity development ; women's construction of their leader persona ; Achieving the truce -- 3. The confluence of past experiences and present circumstances : Identity development through maturation ; Leader pathways through psychosocial development ; The significance of defining experiences on the leader identity ; Individuals and leaders as socially constructed -- 4. Transcendent themes and the leader persona : Transcendent themes ; Transcendent themes and instrumentation in the process of leading -- 5. The esthetics of the leader persona and the practice of proaction and self-study : The esthetics of the leader persona defined ; The convergence of conferred identity and professional constructions ; Phenomenological epistemological processes ; The influence of social contexts on the emergence of the leader esthetics ; The fusion of social contexts ; Proaction in the design of the leader persona ; Toward developing a practice of proaction and self-study.