Strength of Difference: Itineraries of Atypical Bosses

Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by turning their differences into resources, but they remain excluded from convened social positions. This distance leads them to listen, look upon, and analyze their environments, their pasts, and their relations with others more than normal people do, facilitating entrepreneurial risk-taking and the creation of networks, complicity, and solidarity. This book describes the processes through which stigma can be mastered and explains that the position of outsiders translates the social experiences of all those who belong to several worlds.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 184 pages
\n Publication date: 12 November 2018
\n Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
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Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have achieved remarkable success in defying socially predetermined outcomes by harnessing their differences as valuable resources. While this transformation does not necessarily lead them to conform to conventional norms, they have emerged as leaders who remain excluded from established social positions. This unique distance grants them the ability to listen, observe, and analyze their environments, past experiences, and relationships with others in a profound manner. Moreover, this distance fosters entrepreneurial risk-taking, the formation of networks, collaboration, and solidarity. It demands the mobilization of extraordinary social intelligence.

This book delves into the processes by which stigma can be overcome, if not entirely forgotten. It also elucidates that the position of outsiders, in the broadest sense of the term, encompasses the social experiences of individuals who belong to multiple worlds and are simultaneously compelled to engage and detach. By exploring these themes, the book provides valuable insights into the complexities of social identity and the challenges faced by those who navigate diverse social contexts.

\n Weight: 390g\n
Dimension: 164 x 322 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781787145825\n \n