Types of Leadership

Strategic management is the name given to the most important, difficult and encompassing challenge that confronts any private or public organization: how to lay the foundation for tomorrow's success while competing to win in today's marketplace. It can be said that there are two kinds of leaders--those who are born and those who are made (Sch˜n, 1983). But at the same time, there are many kinds of businesses today, and a "born" leader might be ineffective in some and effective in others.

All leadership is making a choice between situations. Do I hire more employees, or give the present ones overtime? The situational leader would be able to deal with making sure that there is a constant awareness of what business the company is really in. This also suggests that the organization must establish clear and defined, yet flexible goals.

The "born" leader, on the other hand, might not be able to cope with the speed of change today. "As economies move to an information age of complex technologies global markets, intense competition, and turbulent, constant change, managers eve

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