Novice

(Rookie)

Advanced Beginner

Competent Performer

Proficient

Performer

Expert

(Master)

Implicit leadership theory

A person in charge who wields clout

A person with a compelling vision

A person who takes a stand for the future

A systemic capacity that aligns people

An exercise in language that shifts the “occurring”

Use of the language of leadership

Token fluency with leadership terms/words

Conversant with concepts and definitions

Uses language of phenomenology in conversation

Conversational domain discerned in the first-person

Conversational domain “uses” the leader

Response to a leadership breakdown^*

Often confused, clueless, if not lost

Calculative rationality^**

Calculative rationality

Calculative rationality

Deliberative rationality^***

Theory of performance (effectiveness)

Performance is an effect caused by the leader’s traits/attributes

Performance is an effect caused by the leader’s traits/attributes

Performance is an effect caused by the leader’s traits/attributes

Performance is predominantlya correlate of the “occurring”

Performance is predominantlya correlate of the “occurring”