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How—and When—to Adapt Your Leadership Style

2025/4/16
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Jennifer Jordan: 我最初的研究目标是确定新时代领导者成功的关键能力。研究结果显示七种核心能力至关重要：权力分享、远见卓识、适应能力、加速能力、分析能力、探索能力和卓越的倾听能力。然而，在与VUCA时代领导者的合作中，我们发现最成功的领导者能够在传统领导风格和新兴领导风格之间灵活切换。传统风格例如强势的命令控制，而新兴风格则强调敏捷性和协作。这七种能力代表着传统与新兴世界之间的张力，例如权力掌握者在变革时期提供安全感，而权力分享者则培养他人并专注战略。战术型领导者关注短期目标，而远见型领导者则制定并传达鼓舞人心的愿景。领导者需要在坚持原则与适应变化、追求完美与快速行动、直觉与数据分析之间取得平衡，并在深入研究特定领域与广泛了解环境机遇与威胁之间切换，以及在直接指示与倾听理解之间灵活转换。优秀的领导者并非始终坚持单一风格，而是根据情境灵活调整，选择并专注于三到四个最重要的风格。只做指示或倾听都会带来负面影响，在某些情况下，需要同时扮演倾听者和权力掌握者的角色。领导者需要根据情境、情况和团队情绪调整风格，如果信息不被接受，则需要反思并调整。Angela Renz和Matthias Daffner是平衡不同领导风格的优秀典范。如果领导者只擅长单一风格，可能是缺乏技能或存在恐惧心理，例如权力分享者害怕被视为专制，远见型领导者害怕愿景空洞。通过探索和理解这些恐惧，并挑战误解，可以帮助他们拓展领导风格范围。即使在充满变化的时代，传统领导特质如提供指导和安全感仍然很重要。

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This chapter explores the seven key tensions in leadership, highlighting the need for leaders to adapt their style based on the situation. These tensions include power-sharing vs. power-holding, tactical focus vs. big-picture vision, and more. The chapter emphasizes that effective leaders can move between these styles.
  • Seven key leadership tensions identified.
  • Need to balance traditional and emerging leadership styles.
  • Importance of adaptability and emotional intelligence.

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In the past, executives were usually taught to practice command-and-control leadership. Today they’re often advised to be nimbler, more adaptive, and less controlling. The truth is that most executives need to be able to move back and forth between those two leadership styles. IMD leadership professor and social psychologist Jennifer Jordan offers tactics for navigating these tensions.

**Key episode topics include: **leadership styles, leadership qualities, management, managing people, VUCA, personal growth

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