Lessons for leaders: Positive organization studies meets Niccolò Machiavelli

Cunha, MPE; Clegg, S; Rego, A

Lessons for leaders: Positive organization studies meets Niccolò Machiavelli

Cunha, MPE Clegg, S

Rego, A

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Citation:: Leadership, 2013, 9 (4), pp. 450 - 465
Issue Date:: 2013-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cunha, MPE	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rego, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Leadership, 2013, 9 (4), pp. 450 - 465	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1742-7150	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/26967
dc.description.abstract	Machiavelli should be a central and canonical text for management education, even in the age of positive organizational literatures. We give it this role by considering the case of the virtuous leader. Our proposition is simple: virtuous leaders live and act, like anybody else, in the power circuits that are constitutive of reality. Therefore, they participate in power dynamics that sometimes make them face the need to decide in ways that do not correspond to normative positive precepts. Machiavelli shows that even virtuous leaders must do what needs to be done, while trying to preserve one's values and move in the direction of noble, high purpose goals. © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Leadership	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1742715012455355	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management	en_US
dc.title	Lessons for leaders: Positive organization studies meets Niccolò Machiavelli	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
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Machiavelli should be a central and canonical text for management education, even in the age of positive organizational literatures. We give it this role by considering the case of the virtuous leader. Our proposition is simple: virtuous leaders live and act, like anybody else, in the power circuits that are constitutive of reality. Therefore, they participate in power dynamics that sometimes make them face the need to decide in ways that do not correspond to normative positive precepts. Machiavelli shows that even virtuous leaders must do what needs to be done, while trying to preserve one's values and move in the direction of noble, high purpose goals. © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.

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