Negative Capability and the Capacity to Think in the Present Moment: Some Implications for Leadership Practice

Leadership

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 245-255

  Simpson, Peter ^a   French, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

change management; emotion; leadership; negative capability; psychoanalytic theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990328595     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715006062937     Document Type: Article

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