May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
34 pages
47m
English
book
Direction, Alignment, Commitment: Achieving Better Results Through Leadership, First Edition
by Cynthia D. McCauley, Lynn Fick-Cooper
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BACKGROUND
The beginnings of the DAC leadership framework emerged more than 15 years ago as CCL explored new directions in the understanding and development of leadership. Historically, CCL recognized leadership as essentially an interpersonal influence process. Leadership was about individuals (called leaders) influencing other people (called followers) to engage in the pursuit of shared goals. This asymmetrical influence relationship is at the heart of most traditional leadership theories.
The DAC framework was influenced by a constructivist and relational view of leadership (Drath & Palus, 1994; Drath, 2001) and a leadership development practice that was broadening beyond CCL’s original focus on individuals to include the development of leadership ...