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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

Foundational Research The Situational Leadership ® Model is anchored by a foundation of timeless, pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. It might not happen immediately (trust takes a long time to earn and very little time to “burn”).

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

Former Harvard Professor Chris Argyris pointed out how “upward feedback” often turns into “upward buck-passing”. If more time were spent on developing our ability to present ideas, and less time were spent on blaming others for not buying our ideas, a lot more might get accomplished.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Townes, and Henry L.