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Authentic Leadership Action Wheel
The authentic leadership Action Wheel concept, was developed by Dr. Robert (Bob)Terry long before "authentic leadership" became a buzz phrase. Below you will find his introduction to the concept and the Action Wheel tool. Creation of the Action Wheel, (in his book, Authentic Leadership: Courage In Action) rooted in authenticity, acknowledges that leadership requires more than a general view or “guesstimate” of what is going on. The leadership question is: what is really going on? Therefore, the ability to frame an issue correctly is essential to leadership. For as we frame issues, so too will we solve them. I propose an issue-framing, or action-framing, tool which I call the Authentic Action Wheel. By using the Action Wheel, we can dissect human action fulfillment into six component parts. Then, if we want to redirect our attention and shift the action outcome to a new possibility of fulfillment, we can know what we are doing and why we are doing it. I will illustrate how the tool functions for each of the six generic features. I will also discuss the form and process of the Action Wheel: that is, the wheel’s structure. The formal relationship among the generic features is important to an understanding of all human action and of the issues that action raises.
Formal Relationships of
Effective theory seeks to connect the parts of a particular model in ways that generate new insights, perhaps even wisdom. In the case of the Action Wheel, my objective is to connect the parts in ways that improve our ability to understand key issues.
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