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Contemplating Death

In: Leadership is a Matter of Life and Death

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  • Adrian N. Carr
  • Cheryl A. Lapp

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Coaching, training, recognition and rewards, participative management, performance evaluations, nice e-mails and flame-mails, continual restructuring and re-engineering, always trying to kill the competition, competing with co-workers, 70, 80, 90, more than 100 hour work weeks, vacationless work years, crying, bullying, sexual harassment, yelling and desk pounding, gossip, politics, theft, love affairs with work colleagues, stress, murders and suicides — what do all of these have in common? What they have in common is that they are all manifestations of workplace behaviours when we allow our own and others’ life and death instincts to lead us. This book is about how and why we allow these types of behaviours to occur even when we know they should not. This chapter provides the outline of how we intend to explore the fact that leadership is a matter of life and death in and outside of our workplaces.

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  • Adrian N. Carr & Cheryl A. Lapp, 2006. "Contemplating Death," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Leadership is a Matter of Life and Death, chapter 1, pages 1-18, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-20787-5_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230207875_1
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