Dr. Eric Guthey joins ILA Fellow Scott Allen in this episode. Among other topics, they discuss:

• Key differences between European and American leadership studies.
• The “leadership industries” and the role of leadership fashions.
• Guthey’s unique research on leadership in the restaurant industry.
• The importance of interdisciplinary approaches to leadership.

This insightful conversation provides a fresh perspective on leadership, exploring its social and cultural dimensions beyond traditional American frameworks.

Quotes From This Episode

• “What you have to understand about leadership studies in Europe is that it’s sprung out of sociology.”
• “There are many countries in Europe where there was no word for leadership before the leadership industries arrived.”
• “All management fashions introduce themselves by saying, ‘now is a time of unprecedented change.’ Everything’s completely different than was before, and so we need a new idea.”
• “When you talk to these chefs, they’re amazing people who have amazing self-knowledge of what they do. And so we’re figuring out ways to develop vocabularies and literacies that we can use to both help them and figure out how they can help other industries.”