The Drama of Leadership: Patricia Pitcher
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Devising a feasible plan that fosters the practice of leadership over the process of management is one of the great dilemmas of the modern commercial era. Following an eight-year study, business school dean Patricia Pitcher has developed a method of recognizing three common types of authority figures: the creative “artist,” sensible “craftsman” and hardheaded “technocrat.” In The Drama of Leadership, she explains how such awareness can identify leaders who will guide an organization into the future.
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Pitcher’s work is an extension of her dissertation, in which she researched one company’s rise and fall over a ten-year period, focusing on the personalities of its leaders. We find within each of several companies, whose name and leaders’ names have been changed here, three distinct types of leaders: artists, craftsmen, and technocrats, whose personality traits have all been plotted on charts. The artists are the visionaries, the smooth operators who know everyone’s name; the craftsmen are the preservers, the mentors, and the nurturers; the technocrats are the intense, cerebral, uncompromising leader wannabes. Short of subjecting one’s managers to a battery of psychological tests, identifying those with technocrat tendencies would be difficult. However, if one accepts the validity of the author’s research, it just might be worth it. This novel approach is recommended for all public libraries.?Randy L. Abbott, Univ. of Evansville Libs., Ind.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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