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  1. leadersexcellence.com › the-evolution-of-leadershipThe Evolution of Leadership: Principles, History & Theories

    Sep 20, 2019 · When we talk about The Evolution of Leadership, Leadership itself has not evolved, but our understanding of it has. It is important to understand why very different leadership styles can be effective, why the same leadership techniques will not work in every situation, and which leadership style fits your personality best.

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  2. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullSix ways of understanding leadership development: An ...

    May 13, 2020 · Analysis using a phenomenographic approach revealed six categories and different ways of understanding leadership development: (1) one’s own development, (2) fulfilling a leadership role, (3) personal development, (4) leader and organizational development, (5) collective leadership development, and (6) human development.

    • Sofia Kjellström, Kristian Stålne, Oskar Törnblom
    • 2020

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  4. hbr.org › 2005 › 04Seven Transformations of Leadership - Harvard Business Review

    • The Seven Action Logics. Our research is based on a sentence-completion survey tool called the Leadership Development Profile. Using this tool, participants are asked to complete 36 sentences that begin with phrases such as “A good leader…,” to which responses vary widely
    • The Opportunist. Our most comforting finding was that only 5% of the leaders in our sample were characterized by mistrust, egocentrism, and manipulativeness.
    • The Diplomat. The Diplomat makes sense of the world around him in a more benign way than the Opportunist does, but this action logic can also have extremely negative repercussions if the leader is a senior manager.
    • The Expert. The largest category of leader is that of Experts, who account for 38% of all professionals in our sample. In contrast to Opportunists, who focus on trying to control the world around them, and Diplomats, who concentrate on controlling their own behavior, Experts try to exercise control by perfecting their knowledge, both in their professional and personal lives.

  5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The History of Leadership Development | SpringerLink

    • From Manager to Leader
    • Emotional Intelligence Becomes An Accepted Leadership Trait
    • Leadership Development Helps Leaders to ‘Fit In’

    In the 1980s, another major change in the delivery of leadership development was established by Zaleznik in his HBR article, ‘Managers and Leaders: Are they Different?’ Here, he distinguished between the jobs a manager has to do and the purpose of a leader (Zaleznik 1977). In this and some later articles, he implicitly criticised most areas of lead...

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    Looking back, both of us were already active as leadership development suppliers and HR Professionals at this time and applied much of this new thinking in the leadership development initiatives we were involved in. We felt that Zaleznik’s famous differentiation, in combination with Goleman’s development of the concept of emotional intelligence, st...

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    At the beginning of this century, another trend occurred, the development of leadership capabilities. This opened the door to develop performance management systems which not only quantified the technical ‘hard’ skills in term of revenue, but also looked at, for example, the communication skills of a leader or their ability to handle difficult or c...

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    • Carola Hieker, John Pringle
    • 2021

  6. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The Story of Leadership: The Historical Development of ...

    Aug 2, 2018 · In this view, leadership understanding moved in and then out of the various stages of thought (Great Man, Trait theory, Group process, Behavior theories, Contingency theories, Transformational/Excellence theories) in a manner that discredited the previous stage to make room for the more enlightened stage to come.

    • James Laub
    • 2018

  7. hbr.org › 2004 › 01The Seven Ages of the Leader - Harvard Business Review

    Drawing on more than 50 years of academic research and business expertise—and borrowing from Shakespeare’s seven ages of man—Bennis says the leader’s life unfolds in seven stages. “The infant...

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  9. journals.sagepub.com › doi › pdfSix ways of understanding leadership development: An ...

    The results of the analysis showed six qualitatively different ways of conceptualization of leadership development, denoted W1 to W6 (for an overview, see Table 1). W1 starts with a concrete focus on the leader’s own development and is expanded in W2 as the development within one’s role at work.