If you have ever attended a leadership seminar, listened to a CEO’s speech, or simply chatted about leadership during a coffee break, you have likely encountered an impressive amount of leadership meta-talk. Managers’ leadership meta-talk is the widespread way they...
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Thomas Fischer is Associate Professor of Responsible Leadership at the University of Geneva and the Yearly Review Editor at The Leadership Quarterly. His research focuses on two main topics. First, he studies the conceptualization and measurement of leadership behaviors and styles. He finds that much research conflates descriptions of leadership behaviors with subjective evaluations or interpretations of them, and he offers ways to increase construct clarity. Second, he studies how managers talk about their leadership. He finds that well-sounding meta-talk is an important and commonly overlooked type of leadership behavior.
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