2 Mapping the leadership team approach with situational constraints

DOI: 10.4324/9781003324577-4

The leadership team approach a CEO or senior executive chooses and how that approach is best implemented is not only a question of personal preferences but is most of the time dependent upon the company type, situational demands, and mandates that leaders face. Leadership is always contextual with little or no universals that could be applied to every situation.1

Take, for instance, Adel Al-Saleh at Deutsche Telekom, a Fortune Global 100 company and a European leader in telecommunications. In 2018, Adel Al-Saleh became CEO of T-Systems GmbH and a member of the board of management at Deutsche Telekom AG. Al-Saleh, an American and British citizen, ...

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