Tools of the trade
By Carol Wilson (April 2008 Issue)
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Fifty years ago the world was a far more authoritarian place than it is now. On the whole, people did what their parents told them to, then what their teachers said and, eventually, followed a boss’s instructions at work. Politicians, policemen and the clergy were regarded as figures of authority and treated with respect. But all this started to change with the social revolution of the 1960s.
Ken Blanchard and Professor Paul Hersey created the first Situational Leadership model back in 1969, more than a decade before Blanchard and Johnson’s groundbreaking book The One Minute Manager saw publication.
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