Photo by Norbu Gyachung on Unsplash To clarify, there is a time and place for command and control leadership, but it’s not needed as often as it’s used. Command and control leadership is useful in emergency or crisis management or leading unskilled, unconfident, inexperienced, or disengaged people who are required to act. Those situations are abnormal, and hopefully […]
There seems to be a never-ending list of leadership styles, models and theories, with new ones emerging frequently. The topic of ‘leadership books’ in Amazon throws up 176,009 titles! They all say pretty much the same thing – it’s about influencing people to behave and act together to achieve a vision. They unpack that statement […]
The man in the grey suit approached as we were taking a coffee break in my presentation on the “12 C’s of Effective Leadership Behaviour” from my book “The Wheel of Effective Leadership Behaviour”. “So which leadership style do you advocate?” he asked. I paused then said “I don’t advocate any particular style of leadership.” […]
There are a plethora of labels depicting leadership styles, mainly emanating from book and program marketers. You’ve heard them - laissez faire; consultative; democratic; authoritarian; transformational etc. It seems that rarely are the people being led asked what their leader is like and rarely do we ask the leader themselves – with the exception of […]
Most leaders were initially chosen to lead because of their technical or operational capability. Most of those that then make it through to the higher echelons of leadership are chosen because of their alleged track record and their relationships with their seniors and allied networks. The very few who also possess or acquire outstanding people […]
