Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices

by Gary A. Yukl, Richard Lepsinger

If you are a manager or a training and development professional, you need concrete suggestions for guiding your organization through rapidly changing conditions and difficult challenges. Flexible Leadership offers a comprehensive theory that integrates findings from different disciplines and more than a half century of research and explains how leaders can effectively enhance the bottom-line performance of their organizations. The authors provide illustrative examples of effective and ineffective leadership, including some from their own consulting experiences over the past 30 years in private and public sector organizations. The book includes information about

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sambasivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leadership is a balancing act. Pursuing the goal of innovation may result in compromising some efficiencies and an extreme focus on transformation may put stress on employee morale and satisfaction. These truisms are well known and therefore do not come as a surprise. The different real life examples are of some value for one to digest these trade offs and understand situational leadership in a better way. Decent read.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last book of the MBA! This was a pretty easy read, but had some good concrete steps for helping build teams and lead others.