Saturday, June 13, 2009

Successful Small Team Leadership: Manage the Group, Not the Individuals


To help explain his recent research on "differentiated leadership," Angelo Kinicki turns to basketball -- specifically, his hometown Phoenix Suns.

Like most any team, the Suns have a roster that includes both high-performers (such as perennial All-Stars Amar'e Stoudemire and Shaquille O'Neal, both considered among greatest players in the world) and, well, slightly less than high achievers (such as deep reserves Stromile Swift and Courtney Sims, neither of whom ever seems to get off the bench).

But the fact is, the Suns are a team.

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