PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
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What makes for good leadership often depends on the situation. The best person to lead an engineering team may not make the best leader of a sales force. Some excel at task leadership and others at social leadership. Combination of specific, challenging goals and periodic progress reports helps motivate high achievement. Group members feel more satisfied when they participate in making decisions. Given control over their tasks, workers also become more motivated to achieve. People who know what they are doing may resent task leadership while those who don"t may welcome it. Many effective leaders exhibit behaviours that help make a minority view persuasive and they engender trust by consistently sticking to their goals. Often exude a self conident charisma that kindles the allegiance of their followers. Charismatic leaders typically have a compelling vision of some desired state of affairs. Ability to communicate it to others in simple language.
