The Strength of Difference: Itineraries of Atypical Bosses Vol: 5
Norbert Alter
Paris Dauphine University, France
Norbert Alter
Paris Dauphine University, France
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781787145825
- Published:
- 12 Nov 2018
- Publisher:
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Dimensions:
- 184 pages - 152 x 229mm
- Series:
- International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Categories:
Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by
turning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that they
became "normal". They are leaders, but they remain excluded from convened social
positions.
This distance leads them to listen, to look upon, and to
analyse their environments, their pasts and their relations with others much
more than "normal" people do. Furthermore, this distance facilitates
entrepreneurial risk-taking and the creation of networks, complicity and
solidarity. It requires the mobilization of extraordinary social intelligence.
This book describes the
processes through which stigma can be mastered, if not forgotten. It also
explains that the position of outsiders, in the broadest meaning of the term,
translates the social experiences of all those who belong to several worlds,
and who find themselves condemned simultaneously to engagement and detachment.
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Mark of Stigmatisation
Chapter 2. The Stranger's Gaze
Chapter 3. Effort, Audacity and Morality
Chapter 4. Close and Far Away
Chapter 5. Passage and Brokering
Chapter
6. Being Oneself
Conclusion
Methodological Annex
Bibliography
Norbert
Alter is a Professor of Sociology at Paris Dauphine University, France. He specialises
in the sociology of organisations and favours an empirically grounded
understanding of the world of business and the social bonds that develop
there.
