How to Choose a Leadership Pattern

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Harvard Business Review Press, Sep 4, 2009 - Business & Economics - 80 pages

You're the boss: Should you call all the shots? Pick a course of action, then "sell" your idea to employees? Gather input from subordinates but make final decisions yourself? Let your group solve problems? Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. How to Choose a Leadership Pattern offers strategies for selecting the best approach-depending on considerations such as your values, your subordinates' abilities, and the situation (including the degree of time pressure you're under). Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

 

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About the author (2009)

Robert Tannenbaum is Professor of the Development of Human Systems at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and coauthor (with Irving Weschler and Fred Massarik) of Leadership and Organization: A Behavioral Science Approach (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961).

Warren H. Schmidt is also affiliated with the UCLA Graduate School of Management, where he is Senior Lecturer in Behavioral Science. Besides writing extensively in the fields of human relations and leadership and conference planning, Mr. Schmidt wrote the screenplay for a film, “Is It Always Right to Be Right?” which won an Academy Award in 1970.

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TitleHow to Choose a Leadership Pattern
Harvard Business Review Classics
AuthorsRobert Tannenbaum, Warren H. Schmidt
PublisherHarvard Business Review Press, 2009
ISBN1633691403, 9781633691407
Length80 pages
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Business & Economics / Leadership
  
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