Leadership versatility presentation

Kaplan, R.E. (2002, May). Leadership versatility: What leaders need to deal with complex challenges—and don’t always have. Paper presented in Charles Palus (Chair), Complex Challenges Roundtable at the Leadership Development Conference organized by the Conference Board, New York, NY.

Presents a model of the kind of versatile leadership needed to flourish the in the complex model world of business. Versatility is seen as the capability to employ a given managerial skill to more or less degrees. A higher order conception of versatility is presented that considers the ability to deftly turn from using opposing skill sets, depending on the needs of the situation.

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LeadrVersCONFBD(Kaplan2002).pdf

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