Effective Leaders – Do They All Share A Generic Set of Qualities
Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHRAugust 2nd, 2009
This weekend I found myself re-reading Morgan W. McCall Jr.’s book High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders.
In the preface he states that “…there is apparantly a widespread and fundamental need to believe that a single (and usually short) list of generic qualities can be used to describe all effective leaders and that these qualities are relatively stable over the course of a person’s career. “ McCall states that this is inconsistent with what he has learned about how executives develop.
What do you think? Is there a generic list? If so what are some of the qualities you think are on that list?
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