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Becoming a Jedi Manager The Force Awakens through Classic Leadership Perspectives

Journal of Leadership and Management

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Title Becoming a Jedi Manager The Force Awakens through Classic Leadership Perspectives
 
Creator Urick, Michael J.; Michael J. Urick, Ph.D., MBA, MS Associate Professor
Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government,
Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA
e-mail: michael.urick@stvincent.edu
 
Description Popular culture has been used in management education to illustrate leadership concepts. This paper suggests taking one particular piece of popular culture, the Star Wars saga, to analyze the leadership traits of the mystical Jedi. Real-world managers can be informed by their em- phasis on mindfulness and mentoring. However, managers must also be wary of over extending self through multi-tasking as well as dwelling on failures for too long as these have been pitfalls of the Jedi. This paper recommends ways in which instructors can explore the topics of mindfulness, mentoring/developing, multi-tasking, and failing while noting some challenges of engaging these topics.Keywords: Star Wars, popular culture, mindfulness, mentoring, multi-tasking, failure, leadership, spirituality
 
Publisher Journal of Leadership and Management
 
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Date 2018-12-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/141
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 4, No 14 (2018): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/141/99
 
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