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This book demonstrates Dialogical Leadership which is the workplace application of the Dialogical Self Theory, first developed by Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans in the 1990s. It encourages scientists and science-practitioners interested in leadership i

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Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership Boiling Rice in Still Water

Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership

Rens van Loon

Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership Boiling Rice in Still Water

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Rens van Loon School of Humanities, Dialogical Leadership Tilburg University Tilburg The Netherlands

ISBN 978-3-319-58888-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58889-6

ISBN 978-3-319-58889-6

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Dedicated to my dearly loved grandchildren Nora, Benjamin, Roos, and Marijn. In our future world, they will give and receive leadership.

Foreword I

I once asked my father how he gauged success. He offered two measures. First what your child thinks of you when he or she becomes an adult. And second the legacy you leave at work. My son is young, and I hope someday he will regard me with something close to the love and admiration I feel toward my father. On a closer horizon, I have been thinking a lot about the legacy I will leave when I retire after more than 40 years at Deloitte, most recently serving as Deloitte Global CEO. I dream of a legacy in which hundreds of thousands of Deloitte professionals around the world wake up every day with a passion to achieve our shared purpose: to make an impact that matters. In my leadership roles over the years, I have tried to make a meaningful impact by articulating and fostering a “culture of purpose,” in which we work together to achieve amazing things for our clients, colleagues and communities. Therefore, I am excited, an