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The Hard Knocks of Leadership

In: Global Majority Leadership

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  • Lace M. Jackson

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This chapter analyses individual Global Majority leaders’ narratives to uncover further the genre of tragedy, satirical comedy, and underlying reasons they see organisations as disadvantageous spaces linked to leadership ‘hard knocks.’ The Jamaican proverb: 'Rain a fall but dutty tough' is used here to convey the specific personal challenges associated with the brutal and destructive side of leadership, which many Global Majority leaders refer to as their experience. The translation of the proverb means that even though the rain is falling, the ground is still hard and confronts the perceptions that although leadership is considered a positive concept, there are 'hard knocks' which, for some, evidences itself in the extreme pressure and personal burden of leadership. The genre of tragedy and satirical comedy in the form of irony is evident in these 'hard knocks,' which include family and community expectations, critical self-doubt, internalised oppression and ‘shadism’ leading to what I term 'organisation-induced trauma and stress' (OiTS).

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  • Lace M. Jackson, 2024. "The Hard Knocks of Leadership," Springer Books, in: Global Majority Leadership, chapter 0, pages 49-65, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-58464-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58464-0_4
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