Leadership effectiveness hangs in the balance

Kaiser, R.B. & Kaplan, R.E. (2001). Leadership effectiveness hangs in the balance. Leadership in Action, 21(1), 12-13.

Many speak of the importance of leaders striking balances — between the short-run and the long-haul, between taking charge and empowering, etc. Implicit is the idea that leadership effectiveness hinges on balance. We describe a unique way to assess how well managers balance competing values and demonstrate with data that balance is indeed essential to high performance.

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