Core

Leaders who maintain failed systems Zombie leadership

Leadership detached from followers’ needs Toxic leadership

Persistence of outdated ideas Undead ideology

Illusion of control through hierarchy Symbolic authority

Power sustained by compliance Passive followership

Reviving legitimacy via ritual Symbolic maintenance

Breaking free through new meanings Collective redefinition

Reality built through interaction Social constructionism

Knowledge as relational process Relational epistemology

Self created in relationships Relational self

Language creates social worlds Linguistic construction

Truth as social agreement Co-created truth

Challenge to individualism Anti-essentialism

Focus on shared meaning Relational coordination

Leadership as joint action Relational leadership

Meaning created in conversation Dialogic process

Power through coordination, not control Co-active power

Identity formed in interaction Relational identity

Organizations as meaning systems Discursive organization

Change through new narratives Narrative reconstruction

Ethics as relational responsibility Relational ethics

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