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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. One challenge with those discoveries is that many provided conflicting results regarding who leaders were, what they did and what the most effective style of leadership was.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. To keep leading, keep learning.

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Transitioning into Management

The Center For Leadership Studies

We then accepted a front-line management job where we were responsible for ensuring other people (perhaps even former peers of ours) did the thing we knew how to do. We had parents, teachers, coaches and successful relatives (that commanded attention at family functions) and the managers that hired us (that we worked so hard to impress), etc.