Developing Three‐dimensional Leaders

Abstract

In many organizational day‐to‐day situations, effective managers require multidimensional leadership characteristics. They need innovator characteristics to solve crises and to identify and “sell” new visions to the organization; implementor characteristics to systematically operationalize the solutions to the crises and the new visions; and pacifier characteristics to maintain the status quo in stable times. Develops a model containing the traits, abilities, and behaviour of the three leader types. Leaders with multi‐dimensional leadership characteristics are scarce, but they can be developed. A management development agent applied this model to a group of about 50 managers who participated in a leadership development programme. The agent reported positive results. Gender barriers, however, were noted.

Citation

Rodrigues, C.A. (1993), "Developing Three‐dimensional Leaders", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621719310025001