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Thinking as Leadership/Leadership as Thinking

Andrew Norton

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Heidegger challenges that as the world becomes more thought provoking, we are still not thinking. Yet, the very nature of being human is to think. This article presents the findings of a research project exploring the nature of thinking as described by 14 leaders using hermeneutic phenomenological research methodology. The findings are presented in a visual representation which describes how leaders think through the coming of a call to lead. There is a point when a leader makes a turn, committing them to centring their thinking on the quest. To lead is always to follow, going amidst the noise of activity and the silence of thought-full-ness. In the silence the leader awaits the guidance that will direct the way of serving. Leaders live thinking, experience a resonance of knowing, and are always on the way of change. Thinking is drawn to the ‘for the sake of’under the guidance of the embodied values.

Key Words: calculative • Heidegger • leadership • meditative • thinking

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