Chapter 5. Situational Leadership® II: The Integrating Concept

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If empowerment is the key to treating people right and motivating them to treat your customers right, having a strategy to shift the emphasis from leader as boss and evaluator to leader as partner and cheerleader is imperative. But what, exactly, is the right strategy or leadership style?

For a long time, people thought there were only two leadership styles—autocratic and democratic. ...

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