Author Archives: Jaap Geerlof

7/31 – Corona-Crisis Exposes the Need for Transformative Leadership

July 2020 / Feature Articles

Jaap Geerlof

COVID-19: The Latest Pandemic

Jaap Geerlof

On the last day of 2019, health officials from China reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) about a group of 41 patients with similar symptoms of an unknown type of pneumonia. The outbreak in China became world news. On January 7, 2020, Chinese authorities identified a novel coronavirus as the cause of the symptoms. Scientists believe the novel coronavirus jumped from bats to pangolins to humans at …

8/31 – Learning to embrace the paradox of leadership

Feature Articles / August-November 2017

Jaap Geerlof 

Abstract

The complexifying world places contemporary leaders for major challenges in leading organizations. The progressive complexity of the organizational and social context often surfaces as paradox. Surprisingly, paradoxes are hardly addressed in leadership epistemology, or in leadership development models. Contrarily, management and organizational science scholars have embraced the necessity to engage paradox in the workplace. The negation of paradoxes in most leadership theories stems from the axiology of positivism in which most traditional leadership …