Part 3. Understanding the Territory, Anticipating the Challenges
Leadership is always contextual. The unique demands of time, place, people, task, and organizational history affect the leadership path as well as the capacities needed to do the job well. Healing an ailing company requires savvy and strategies different from those needed to sustain progress in a well-functioning enterprise; heading a family-owned business has challenges that leading a public multinational doesn't, and vice versa; and the list goes on. To no one's surprise, research has found that leaders successful in one organization or situation are not always as effective in others. Context matters—and in today's fast-paced, competitive, global world, context matters more than ...
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