Leadership values are linked to the rhetorical context and situation. Furthermore, a leader’s identity is fixed, but it is value centric. Identity is constantly shifting. The Gardener and The Chef show how leadership identity is formed and reformed through rhetorical performance. The chef, they argue, uses ‘industry standard processes’ to achieve these results. Chefs tend to have a more complicated power relationship with the team, as they are very clearly responsible for managing its processes and procedures. A focus on leadership personality asserts, for example, the importance of an individual’s character and charisma, whereas a focus on behaviour is concerned with how leadership can be developed as a skillset. In this view of leadership, communicating project management is both situational and contextual, but also reliant on the positionality of the project manager in the group. Project managers who lead as gardeners are cultivating conditions for teams to grow together as individuals and as a collective.
- Communicating Project Management: A Participatory Rhetoric for Development Teams
- Benjamin Lauren
- Darren Dalcher (Editor)
- Rethinking Project Management for A Dynamic and Digital World, pp.48-60
- Routledge
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- A&S - Writing Studies; College of A&S; WRS - WRITING STUDIES Department
- English
- Book chapter
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