Change Agents and Leadership -- Who Will Follow?
April 4, 2006
Change agents and leadership go hand in hand. This notion was explored many times in the change agent paper. However, the title of a new book by Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones poses the following question, "Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? What it takes to be an Authentic Leader", and forces change agents to consider the value of their leadership. Although I have not yet read the book, this review in the LA Times was very positive and peaked my interest. From the article:
"Goffee and Jones hold to the view that successful leadership is situational; that is, good leadership largely consists of responding and adapting to the needs of any particular time and place. To be an adaptable leader requires skill, and it is here that leadership training has an important role to play, not in making leaders but in helping leaders to become better, to 'be yourself - with skill,' in the book's own slightly clumsy catchphrase..."
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