Beyond Virtue: Three Hidden Capacities in Authentic Leadership for Addressing Complex Organizational Challenges
Abstract Authentic leadership, as an emerging approach in the literature of organizational leadership, has primarily emphasized moral virtues and inner integrity. However, in today’s complex, multilayered, and dynamic environments, this approach—if lacking three fundamental capacities: “future-oriented delay tolerance,” “detection of incongruent innovations,” and “experiential de-cycling skills”—often leads to the reproduction of organizational inefficiency. Based on…