Abstract
Some qualitative sources of information about leadership are rich with descriptive reports. Analyzing that information in ways that permit different researchers to verify those analyses can be quite difficult. This paper presents a method -- Career Description Analysis -- that could be used to facilitate such verification. Career Description Analysis -- the content analysis of biographies and/or autobiographies of leaders -- is outlined and an example of its use presented. The example uses both original data and data from an earlier study to show that military and business leaders, while similar to one another, nevertheless demonstrate important differences. Suggestions about future research using Career Description Analysis also are made.
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