The Leader as a Broker of Dreams
通过扎根理论解释个人愿景如何在企业环境中转化为现实，将这一过程定义为领导力，并强调其政治性和领导者作为经纪人的角色。
The paper presents a grounded theory which explains how a personal vision becomes enacted into reality within a corporate arena. This enactment process is defined as leadership. The theory suggests that leadership is a political process. For enactment to occur in a manner which is engaging and inspirational, the leader must design and maintain through, patterned interactions, a support system. The interactions are brokerage transactions in which the leader modifies and clarifies intentions in response to technical, social, and environmental concerns expressed through exchanges with members of this support system. As this happens the leader matures. Vision also becomes converted into a social dream which is scripted for the purpose of implementation.