Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both

Download or read book Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both written by Robert Kaplan and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling leadership as mutually exclusive, or strongly prefer one or the other, and therefore lack the versatility to be truly effective. This publication explains how executives can overcome the emotional barriers to expanding their skill sets in one direction or the other.