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Title: New thinking for those bored with standard leadership fare
Review: Kaplan and Kaiser have written an impressive book - a great mix of outstanding conceptual and research based rigour and the pragmatic reality of understanding the behaviour of real leaders as part of their consulting practice. The opposing scales of enabling/forceful and strategic/operational are a neat way of describing a century of leadership research - but what's new is the idea of lopsidedness, of overdoing your strengths - and in particular the way of measuring this through a rating scale which is indeed innovative and different. I made my own self assessment against the different attributes - it certainly made me think about my own versatility (or lack of it!!) in a different way. This book is a must read for those of us a little bored with never reading anything really different in the leadership field - this IS different....
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