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Article: Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices.
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- School Administrator
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- November 1, 2005
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As a quality primer for the major elements of leadership, Gary Yukl and Richard Lepsinger have developed a model for understanding and guiding action in complex organizations. Flexible Leadership looks at ways to thoughtfully combine adaptability and effectiveness in the leadership role.
Within the context of situational factors, the authors identify efficiency and reliability, application and innovation and human resources and relations as key elements in developing effective organizations. Each category is used to describe effective strategies for leadership by rightly acknowledging that "effective managers must ... be leaders, and leaders must manage."