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Leadership Styles–The Three Ds

Lead Change Blog

Leaders influence and inspire people to make positive changes to improve the status quo! . The Situational Leadership Theory Model— developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard describes four leadership styles. What style will you work on? How many different leadership styles are there? Identify one thing you will do today.

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

Our founder, Dr. Paul Hersey, had seen to that. That course became a best-selling text book (“Management of Organizational Behavior”). That book introduced The Situational Leadership ® Model and was the genesis for the launch of CLS in 1969. In those days, you primarily positioned the merits of your model against others.

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Three Ways to Make Your Leadership Relevant

LDRLB

This excerpt is adapted from his newest book, The Leader’s Pocket Guide. . Leaders need to be flexible and apply a leadership style that fits the situation, as posited by author and organizational theorist Paul Hersey. PURPOSEFUL LEADERSHIP DEPENDS UPON RELEVANCY and connection. Here are some guidelines: 1.

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Please Read This! For Leaders & Coaches…

Marshall Goldsmith

My latest book, Triggers, was a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. This year, the editors at Amazon.com listed my books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers as two of the top 100 leadership and success books ever written (in their ‘to read in your lifetime’ series).

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Giving Away All I Know – ‘Pay It Forward’!

Marshall Goldsmith

My latest book, Triggers, was a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. This year, the editors at Amazon.com listed my books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers as two of the top 100 leadership and success books ever written (in their ‘to read in your lifetime’ series).

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The Right Way to Disagree with Direct Reports

Marshall Goldsmith

A: Here are my suggestions for you, which (I hope) work: * My teacher and mentor Paul Hersey always taught me that "leadership is not a popularity contest." Great leaders focus on building positive, lasting relationships with the people they lead - and should be sensitive to how they are perceived by direct reports. Life is good.

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Why You Need a Personal Superhero!

Marshall Goldsmith

Like all of my other wonderful heroes, Frances Hesselbein, Peter Drucker, Alan Mulally, and Dr. Paul Hersey, Buddha was a generous teacher. Even more incredible, he didn’t even write a book! The response to this offering was so overwhelmingly positive that I have decided to expand the group to 100 Coaches.

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