Interesting Read on Assessing Leaders and Leadership

Rob Kaiser, Bob Hogan and Craig Bartholomew have just published a provocative article entitled "Leadership and the fate of organizations" in the February-March 2008 issue of American Psychologist. One of their main arguments is that while the quality of leadership is a critical factor in shaping the success of an organization, most of the literature focuses upon the trajectory of a leader's career as opposed to the sucesss that he or she may experience in actually leading individuals, teams, and organizations.

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