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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

There were no lists of training professionals you could purchase with up-to-date contact information for the person making leadership and management training decisions. Our founder, Dr. Paul Hersey, had seen to that. That course became a best-selling text book (“Management of Organizational Behavior”).

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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. Was the manager effective?