4 Changing Demands on Leadership
My discipline is not psychology but sociology, and sociologists naturally tend to see leadership as secondary to social forces. Yet the transformational experiences in many corporations over the last few decades, and the disruptive events of the Trump administration at the national level, certainly show that leaders can make a significant difference. In truth, as Michael Maccoby argues elsewhere in this volume, both dimensions are important: leadership is always a matter of interaction between personality and social context—so there is value in coming at the problem from the social end.
Most of my research since the late 1980s has focused on corporate organizations. ...
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