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Achieving Success as a 21st Century Manager
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Achieving Success as a 21st Century Manager

by Dean E. Frost
September 2021
Beginner
212 pages
5h 9m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 2

Leadership Differences Competence

What Is Competence in Recognizing Leadership Differences?

How you describe your style as a leader is an important question. One might be tempted to refer to one’s personality traits and that, in fact, was the way that leadership style was described until the 1950s. Just after World War II, a very famous study published by Ralph Stogdill of Ohio State University concluded that prior evidence of a particular personality trait contributing to leadership in general had never been established (Stogdill 1948). It was at that point that many experts in the field of management followed the trend of the psychology of that era and became behaviorally oriented. In other words, at that time, they turned to describing ...

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ISBN: 9781631573989