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Graham Williams Management Consultant, South Africa
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Trouble with Situational Leadership is: the model relies on the manager or leader to be the sole determinant of the employee's "ready, willing and able" status (whether or not we are aware of it). In case of a bossy (Editor: ~ordering) boss, especially in high pressure, urgent deadline times, can easily lead to the manager undermining the employee (the subsidiarity trap), 'telling', over "managing". Quite militaristic and arrogant and old-style in many ways. So the SL model should mainly be used as a guideline for discussion between bossy leaders and their subordinate.
SL is also heavily weighted to TASK, far less so to RELATIONSHIP. This implies that those with a dominant / aggressive style will "take to" the model more readily than those with an assertive but nurturing style ... (...) Read more? Sign up for free
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Renker Weiss Management Consultant, Austria
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Directive or Cooperative Leadership Style
Dear Graham, I conduct leadership seminars and wor (...)
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K R Sethuraman Professor, Malaysia
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In an ICU, Directive Leadership is the Norm (Healthcare Mangement)
@Renker Weiss: I have been in Intensive Care Units (...)
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Michael Horwitz Professor, United States
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Great Examples of Telling Style
In both situations described the telling or direct (...)
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Graham Williams Management Consultant, South Africa
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In Situational Leadership, the Leader Determines the Situation
My hope is that we move towards a time where comma (...)
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