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We are looking for people who would like to participate in a symposium at the Academy of Management meetings in 2011. The title of our symposium is “Extreme Leadership and Teams.” The purpose of the symposium is to analyze unique and unusual examples of leaders and teams that have been successful in extreme situations. We are looking for historical and contemporary cases of exemplary leadership behavior in nontraditional settings, e.g. Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition. We are also interested in examples of cohesive teams that have achieved outstanding performance by overcoming obstacles. The team examples would also be drawn from nontraditional settings, such as the Apollo 13 space mission or the 1980 gold medal winning U.S. Hockey team. We are looking for nontraditional examples of leaders and teams that have not been explored in depth in previous management literature. The composite of cases presented in the symposium will offer participants alternative lenses through which to view leadership and teams. The goal of the symposium is to better understand the factors that explain successful leadership and team behavior in trying, dire, and extreme situations. We currently have two papers for the symposium (Leadership Lessons from The Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and From Ernest Shackleton and the Polar Explorers to the Chilean Miners: Leadership and Teams in the Extremest Extreme). If you are interested in participating in this symposium please forward us your ideas as soon as possible. We will ultimately need a 3-5 page summary of your presentation, but first we need you to send us your ideas at ahurley@chapman.edu or giannant@chapman.edu.

A recent example of 'extreme leadership' would be the Chilean miners trapped
underground and not knowing if anyone was coming to save them. They had
great leadership, kept their panic and despair in check and survived until
they finally heard from the surface that help was on the way. The period of
time from cave in to hearing from the surface has to be a study in extreme
leadership and group interaction.

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We are looking for people who would like to participate in a symposium at
the Academy of Management meetings in 2011. The title of our symposium is
"Extreme Leadership and Teams." The purpose of the symposium is to analyze
unique and unusual examples of leaders and teams that have been successful
in extreme situations. We are looking for historical and contemporary cases
of exemplary leadership behavior in nontraditional settings, e.g. Ernest
Shackleton and the Endurance expedition. We are also interested in examples
of cohesive teams that have achieved outstanding performance by overcoming
obstacles. The team examples would also be drawn from nontraditional
settings, such as the Apollo 13 space mission or the 1980 gold medal winning
U.S. Hockey team. We are looking for nontraditional examples of leaders and
teams that have not been explored in depth in previous management
literature. The composite of cases presented in the symposium will offer
participants alternative lenses through which to view leadership and teams.
The goal of the symposium is to better understand the factors that explain
successful leadership and team behavior in trying, dire, and extreme
situations. We currently have two papers for the symposium (Leadership
Lessons from The Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and From
Ernest Shackleton and the Polar Explorers to the Chilean Miners: Leadership
and Teams in the Extremest Extreme). If you are interested in participating
in this symposium please forward us your ideas as soon as possible. We will
ultimately need a 3-5 page summary of your presentation, but first we need
you to send us your ideas at ahurley@chapman.edu or giannant@chapman.edu.