Jon Billsberry

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: the interpretive dilemma of strategic and compassionate leadership

Purpose This paper challenges the perceived antagonism between strategic leadership and compassionate leadership. It argues that the tension is not inevitable in organizational decision-making, but arises from essentialist assumptions that treat strategy and compassion as fixed l...

Deconstructing the Social Construction of Leadership: Disentangling Constructivism, Constructionism, Co-Construction, Critical Constructionism, and Other Constructions of Leadership

The phrase “leadership is socially constructed” is widely invoked but rarely clarified, creating conceptual ambiguity in leadership research. This paper disentangles the theoretical roots of constructionist thought in leadership studies by distinguishing four core traditions, con...