Meers的文献综述中还包括Shamir, Dayan-Horesh和Adler(2005)进行的定性研究，他们探讨了领导者讲述的生活故事。他们研究的目的是推断出领导者故事中的共同主题，这些主题可以为领导力发展提供更深入的见解。证明一个领导者自己的故事，甚至他/她的讲述方式对他们在追随者中的影响力有很大的影响。Meers提到了Avolio(1994)的工作，他的工作虽然在领导能力发展方面具有突破性，但受到生活经验的影响，在一定程度上是有限的。Avolio的研究的目的是探索某些生活经验之间的相关性，并识别转换型领导行为。Avolio(1994)选择了他将要分析的生活经历。密尔斯在他的论文中说，虽然这是一种合理的定量研究方法，但它限制了领导者在哪些经历对他们的发展有影响方面的选择(密尔斯，2009，第31页)。然而，密尔斯报告的研究的另一个局限是更狭隘地关注已识别的“转型”领导者，尤其是具体的转型行为。Avolio的研究发现，某些经历与某些变革型领导之间存在一定的相关性，但它并没有提供大量关于生活事件或经历对领导力发展的总体影响的见解。
加拿大教育学论文代写:生活故事
Also included in Meers' literature review is the qualitative study conducted by Shamir, Dayan-Horesh and Adler (2005) in which they explored the life-stories that leaders tell. The purpose of their study was to extrapolate common themes in the leaders' stories that may provide further insight into leadership development. made the case that a leader's own story and even how he/she tells it has a strong impact upon how influential they are with their followers. Meers referred to the work of Avolio (1994) whose work, although ground breaking in the area of leadership development impacted by life experiences, was somewhat limited. The purpose of Avolio's study was to explore the correlation between certain life experiences and to identify transformational leadership behaviors. Avolio (1994) selected the life experiences he was going to analyze. Meers stated in his dissertation that while this is a legitimate approach to a quantitative study, it limited the choices of the leaders in regard to which experiences they could identify as having impacted their development (Meers, 2009, p. 31). Yet another limitation to the study that Meers reported was in the more narrow focus on identified "transformational" leaders and especially upon specific transformational behaviors. Avolio's study found some correlation between certain experiences and certain transformational leaders but it did not provide a great deal of insight into the general impact of life events or experiences upon leadership development
