Thank you for attending my talk at the AACSB 2024 Dean’s conference, and for your interest in my work. Here are some pieces related to the themes of the talk:
The big mess. We are living through a collective mid life crisis of management as we knew it...
Petriglieri, G. 2020. Are our management theories outdated? Harvard Business Review, June 18, 2020
Petriglieri, G. 2020. F**k Science!? An invitation to humanize organization theory. Organization Theory, 1 (1): 1-18. [download]
The turn to leadership. Management students look for ‘leadership’ as a proxy for a self that is protected and prepared for uncertain careers.
Petriglieri, G., Petriglieri J.L. & Wood, J.D. 2018. Fast tracks and inner journeys: Crafting portable selves for contemporary careers. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63 (3), 479-525. [download]
Petriglieri, G. 2017. The Portable Leader is the New “Organisation Man.” Harvard Business Review, August 10, 2017
Great demand for, yet much dissatisfaction with, the ‘leadership’ on offer. Perhaps due to our dehumanised, dominant models of leadership.
Petriglieri, G. & Petriglieri, J.L. 2015. Can business schools humanize leadership? Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14 (4), 625-647 [download]
In crises and times of radical change, the core of leadership is care.
Petriglieri, G. 2020. The psychology behind effective crisis leadership. Harvard Business Review, April 22, 2020
Petriglieri, G. 2023. Driving organizational change – without abandoning tradition. Harvard Business Review, April 24, 2023
Learning that makes lives better, and learning that makes lives matter.
Petriglieri, G. 2020. Learning for a living. MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2020
Institutions that provide both instrumental and humanistic learning become “identity workspaces” that shape portable and purposeful leaders.
Petriglieri, G. & Petriglieri, J.L. 2010. Identity Workspaces: The case of business schools. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 9 (1), 44-60 [download]
In identity workspaces, leaders are symbols and architects of learning.
Petriglieri, G. & Peshkam, A. 2022. Stranger leaders: A theory of marginal leaders’ conception of learning in organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 65 (4): 1240-1273. [download]
Leading boldly might mean standing for humanism in a business world dominated by instrumentality.
Business does not need the humanities–but humans do. Harvard Business Review, November 2, 2018
Humanising leadership: principles and practice
Check out the “teaching” section of this webpage. Or this presentation at the 2022 Academy of Management.
Enjoy the rest of the webpage, and please reach out if you are interested in bringing these ideas to life, and putting them to work, at your school.
GP