Leadership in Action: Leadership Is Change - Or Is It?

Different Times, Similar Results

Although the 1990s research took place in an organizational environment far different from the one in the previous decade, and although it included samples that had greater cultural diversity and more minorities and women than the earlier research, the results that emerged were surprisingly similar. This indicates that many of the factors that go into developing effective leadership have not changed much in twenty years. The majority of the key events and lessons important to creating successful leaders stayed the same. Leaders still cited learning from mistakes, missed promotions, and personal trauma, for instance. The derailment research found that things such as strong interpersonal skills, the ability to meet ...