Return on leadership

Anne Martensen and Lars Gronholdt

It is generally accepted that leadership is the foundation for creation of a company's business results.
  

Return on leadership

Anne Martensen and Lars GrønholdtCopenhagen Business School

1 INTRODUCTION

Leadership has an imperative role in the performance of a company. In the future the leader's job will both become more important and difficult as the demand to create short-term results increase, while new ways of creating efficiency within the company and efficiency of the employees is a recurrent demand.

To achieve success as a leader, one has to have the ability to develop visions, set clear goals, formulate strategies, align goals and objectives with the strategy and vision, engage in partnerships, invest...

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