Leading by Biography: Towards a Life-story Approach to the Study of Leadership

By Boas Shamir, Hava Dayan-Horesh, D. Adler. 2005

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"What's your story?" A life-stories approach to authentic leadership development. (2005, methodology): “In the remaining of this section we substantiate this claim and offer examples from the life-stories interviews, which are not reported by Shamir et al. (2005).”
Storytelling, time, and evolution: The role of strategic leadership in complex adaptive systems ☆ (2007, background): “Shamir et al. (2005), in their analysis of the narrative accounts, found that the theme of struggle was common among leaders.”
Looking forward but learning from our past: Potential challenges to developing authentic leadership theory and authentic leaders (2005, background): “Leaders’ life stories could also be collected from other parties close to the leader, family members, colleagues, and followers, and compared to the leader’s story (Shamir & Eilam, 2005; Shamir et al., 2004).”
Authentic leadership: development of a new three pillar model (2015, background): “Shamir et al. (2005) suggest that leadership development as described by leaders’ life story narratives centres around four themes, all of which, they suggest, are equally valid as a basis for authentic leadership development.”