One of the reasons I don’t like leadership research is that it’s so often post-hoc storytelling. Case in point: Ken Lay of Enron being the case study for leadership in this popular 2002 OB textbook
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Long ago, Jim Meindl pointed out that "leadership" is just a story we use to simplify and explain complex events. Now, Steffens and @alexanderhaslam show that narcissists are most likely to believe in the leadership story. Perhaps humbler people can better grasp complexity?

Another fire paper from Alvesson in #LeadershipQuarterly exposing the questionable practices leadership scholars use to make their studies appear "successful" 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984320300667

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984320300667