How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
I just learned about an interesting discussion happening over on the Harvard Business School blog, How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? The space for entering comments is open for another week, so go take a look.
This comes from some of the wonderful work by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton on evidence-based management. How does leadership effect performance? What evidence is there to support it? I have been interested this for a long time, and especially since I will be teaching a class in the next few weeks on at NYU's SCPS.
While I am very interested in the evidence that is out there, I also realize that all the evidence in the world won't make a difference if it is somebody else's evidence and does not fit within my experience and my own goals and objectives; thus, I plan to take an action-learning perspective to this class (rather than just reading "the book" on the subject, as if there were such a thing out there). After all, can evidence ever really exist only "out there?"
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