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Situational leadership
The big picture
In the 1970s and 1980s, Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard developed their theory on leadership. They stated – and found in their research – that leadership is not a static principle or a fixed state. Effective leadership is task-relevant, and the most successful leadership is the one that adapts to the situation: the task at hand and the individual or group that is to be led.
In their Situational Leadership model, they differentiate between task-related aspects (task behaviour) and relation-related aspects (relation behaviour): on either aspect or both, the leader can put more or less emphasis vis-à-vis ...
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