"Leadership is about the 'management of meaning,' and that leaders emerge because of their role in framing experience in a way that provides the basis for action; that is, by mobilizing meaning, articulating and defining what has previously remained implicit or unsaid, by inventing images and meanings that provide a focus for new attention and by consolidating, confronting or changing prevailing wisdom."
Smirich , Morgan , Robert Birnbaum
How Colleges Work
1998
From Robert Birnbaum's How Colleges Work:
In his study of the distinct leading styles of university presidents, Birnbaum (1998) quotes Smirich and Morgan, writing that "Leadership is about the 'management of meaning,' and that leaders emerge because of their role in framing experience in a way that provides the basis for action; that is, by mobilizing meaning, articulating and defining what has previously remained implicit or unsaid, by inventing images and meanings that provide a focus for new attention and by consolidating, confronting or changing prevailing wisdom." (p. 78)
As AI is based on social constructionist theory and thought, this quote brings to mind the role of a leader as a social constructionist.
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