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Prepare for Being Unprepared: Learning About Collective Leadership, Change Readiness, and Mindful Organizing From an Extreme Case Study of Rowing Across the Atlantic

Tobias Mortlock, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-2563-2373 & Strandqvist, L. (2023). Prepare for Being Unprepared: Learning About Collective Leadership, Change Readiness, and Mindful Organizing From an Extreme Case Study of Rowing Across the Atlantic. In: Dhiman, S. K. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Leadership and Change. . New York, US: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003147305

Abstract

This chapter explores the leadership as a collective phenomenon that arises when individuals and teams interact in specific goal-oriented ways and define leadership as persuading the collective to take responsibility for collective problems. The multilevel nature of change readiness is often ignored in the change debate, which is unfortunate as both individually generated cues and situational cues impact the readiness that a person or group experience toward any proposed change. The multilevel nature of a related workplace construct is also often ignored by scientists and practitioners alike: mindfulness in organizations. Management scientists have shown that mindfulness in organizations is a cross-level concept that includes not only intrapsychic processes of individual mindfulness but also social processes related to collective mindfulness, and that mindfulness is induced through meditative as well as non-meditative processes. Sensitivity to Operations is a defining principle of MO that refers to situational awareness and the ability to see the “bigger picture” of operations.

Publication Type: Book Section
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Leadership and Change on 28 March 2023, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003147305
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Departments: School of Health & Psychological Sciences
School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Psychology
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