Is leadership more an art or more a science?

TALULA CARTWRIGHT

Cartwright is a senior program associate at CCL and a trainer in CCL's Leading Creatively program, which helps leaders develop new perspectives to deal with leadership challenges. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary offers some interesting insights into the meanings of the words art and science. Among the definitions of art are “skill acquired by experience, study, or observation”; “an occupation requiring knowledge or skill”; and “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination esp. in the production of aesthetic objects.” According to the dictionary the term skill stresses technical knowledge ...

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