The Warp and Weft of Organisational Life: Relationships and Performative Leadership

Abstract

In Section 2 we introduced two frameworks which are central to our consideration of performative leadership. The first is the E-N-A framework which provides the main structure of this section, considering aspects of enactment, narrative and audience in more detail. The second was the distinction between leadership “is” performance and leadership “as” performance. Chapter 5 investigated the idea that leadership “is” the enactment of performance in more detail, considering the impact which rituals in their broadest sense have on the creation and maintenance of the authority of leaders. This present chapter now turns to the notion of the enactment of leadership “as” performance.