On Becoming Extraordinary: The Content and Structure of the Developmental Networks of Major League Baseball Hall of Famers

Ch-Ch-Ch-changes: How Action Phase Functional Leadership, Team Human Capital, and Interim vs. Permanent Leader Status Impact Post-transition Team Performance

“…Because the required KSAOs are fundamentally different for pitcher and non-pitcher positions (Cotton et al 2011;Howard and Miller 1993), MLB players were first categorized according to their primary roles (i.e., pitcher or batter/fielder). Gillette and Palmer (2008) then adapted the TPR formulas developed by Thorn and Palmer (1984) to calculate pitcher wins scores for all pitchers in MLB history and batter/fielder wins scores for all non-pitcher position players.…”

From the Zoo to the Jungle – Narrative Pedagogies and Enterprise Education

“…(Taylor and Thorpe, 2004). In starting the business entrepreneurs will have contact with a variety of individuals who perform a variety of development functions such as exposure, information, protection and challenging tasks; and psychosocial functions such as counselling, role modelling, acceptance and friendship, all providing feedback critiques, protection and friendliness (Cotton et al, 2011;Dobrow et al, 2012 ). Understanding and acceptance that 'no man is an island' certainly emerged with our students who identified and established relationships and networks to compensate for deficiencies in their skills.…”

A self-determination theory perspective on mentoring relationships at work

“…With few exceptions (e.g., Cotton et al, 2011), developmental network research has not examined the possibility of simultaneously fulfilling different roles in one relationship. These different roles are called 2 "multiplexity", which is "the overlap of roles, exchanges, or affiliations in a social relationship" (Verbrugge, 1979(Verbrugge, , p. 1286.…”

“…Most developmental network studies explore how structural characteristics of developmental networks (e.g. tie strength, diversity, size) contribute to one's development, or how protégé characteristics influence the shape of one's developmental network (e.g., Cotton, Shen, & Livne-Tarandach, 2011;Cummings & Higgins, 2006).…”

“…These different roles are called 2 "multiplexity", which is "the overlap of roles, exchanges, or affiliations in a social relationship" (Verbrugge, 1979(Verbrugge, , p. 1286. Cotton et al (2011) focused on the multiplexity of support functions provided by developers. They found that some developers demonstrate multiplexity by providing multiple career subfunctions or multiple psychosocial subfunctions in one relationship.…”