The art of fighting back: Dissertation on business leader's comebacks after a career setback

• Autor(a) principal: Pimenta, David João Domingues
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/3802
• topic: Leadership; Professional career setback; Reaction to failure; Returning to professional success; Liderança; Contrariedades na carreira profissional; Reacção ao fracasso; Regresso ao sucesso profissional; Trabalho de projeto -- Project work; Mestrado

This master thesis dissertation aims to discuss andarrive to conclusions regarding the way business leaders fight back after a career setback. The work takes the form of a critical view correlating business leader’s comebacks, after a career setback, and the concept of leadership. In the first chapter are presented and discussed the most consensual and updated leadership types/styles and the new trends in the leadership field. Subsequently, are addressed some myths associated with the concept ofleadership – in this section, the concepts of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence are discussed. In the second chapter, is presented the data and the outputs that resulted from the interviews made to three Portuguese business leaders. The interviews were made in order to gather and analyze information, finding out whatare the common aspects of a career setback and of a fighting back process, and to understand and draw conclusions regarding how the Portuguese market and business environment reacts to leaders that are hit by failure. Next, are discussed the three phases of the fighting back process. The shock phase, the retreat and reaction phase, and the comeback phase. At the end, in the third chapter, a conclusion is taken regarding the achievability of a leader to overcome the ultimate challenge thatis to transform failure into success.