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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Frederick Herzberg’s motivation/hygiene theory), none were more influential than the contributions of Harvard professor Chris Argyris Argyris examined the confidence and independent contribution of individuals and teams who were assigned new tasks over time.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Find time to reflect Strategic leaders are skilled in what organizational theorists Chris Argyris and Donald Schön called “double-loop learning.” The following is a guest piece by Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson.