"Many leaders are in the first instance executives whose primary duty is to direct some enterprise or one of its departments or sub-units... It remains true that in every leadership situation the leader has to possess enough grasp of the ways and means, the technology and processes by means of which the purposes are being realized, to give wise guidance to the directive effort as a whole... In general the principle underlying success at the coordinative task has been found to be that every special and different point of view in the group affected by the major executive decisions should be fully represented by its own exponents when decisions are being reached. These special points of view are inevitably created by the differing outlooks which different jobs or functions inevitably foster. The more the leader can know at first hand about the technique employed by all his group, the wiser will be his grasp of all his problems... But more and more the key to leadership lies in other directions. It lies in ability to make a team out of a group of individual workers, to foster a team spirit, to bring their efforts together into a unified total result, to make them see the significance of the particular task each one is doing in relation to the whole."
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p. 115; as cited in: William Sykes "Visions Of Hope: Leadership." Published on August 12, 2012.
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Ordway Tead
Ordway Tead (10 September 1891 – November 1973) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations.
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