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In the early months of 2013 a colleague who manages a leadership development program for professionals asked if I would talk to her clients. She was nearing the end, and felt that important objectives she had defined needed to be reinforced in a capstone session. “Tell them about who you are as a thinking person”, she said. “Tell them what goes on in your head and how you’ve come to be the kind of person you are.” I hesitated.
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Soudien, C. (2014). Finding the Words – an Anthropology of Educational Becoming. In: Ibarrola, M.d., Phillips, D.C. (eds) Leaders in Educational Research. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-764-3_12
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