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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management to Chris Argyris and Immaturity-Maturity Theory, the Situational Leadership ® process integrates the contributions of the most prominent researchers of leadership and human motivation. Oddly enough, those paths were pursued on separate tracks for the longest time.

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How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team

Harvard Business Review

You are holding your weekly team leadership meeting. You are discussing with your direct reports how to handle the project delays that have caused the team to miss its quarterly numbers. You've seen this kind of behavior before from Ted, and you've seen the team's frustration with Ted.

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Book Review: Multipliers

LDRLB

It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use. (p. Chris Argyris , W.E. Here are some of my favorite short quotes from the book: It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know.

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Why I Decided to Rethink Hiring Smart People

Harvard Business Review

Chris Argyris' " Teaching Smart People How To Learn " utterly changed the way I thought about management. They are so very smart that they are also very "brittle," to use Argyris's descriptor. A bigger consulting team for a given project might not be a good thing. That's a heck of a lot of influence for 10 and a half pages!

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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

By 10:30, the team has efficiently sketched out a job description for the point person who will lead the effort. One team member, a no-nonsense American with a Bain Capital pedigree, thinks the answer is obvious: North America Human Resources. With no end in sight, tension rises and the four other team members retreat.

Team 8
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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”. In the same way effective influencers relate to the larger needs of the organization, not just to the needs of their unit or team. You are not paid to win arguments on the relative quality of athletic teams.

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How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team

Harvard Business Review

You are holding your weekly team leadership meeting. You are discussing with your direct reports how to handle the project delays that have caused the team to miss its quarterly numbers. You've seen this kind of behavior before from Ted, and you've seen the team's frustration with Ted.

Team 8