HOLISTIC APPROACH
A more pointed challenge to the paradigm of leadership as management comes from another consultant and management expert, Margaret Wheatley, who confesses to having been a supporter of the dominant paradigm in the past. In the revised edition of her book Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (Berrett-Koehler, 2001), Wheatley argues that recent discoveries support the primacy of a holistic approach to management that emphasizes relationships with people and a widely diffused participatory system.
A study that focused on the dominant paradigm of leadership in the U.S. Army questioned the process by which leadership is supposed to mobilize human energies and galvanize people into collective action. ...
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