How to Choose a Leadership Pattern. Robert Tannenbaum

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      HOW TO CHOOSE

       A LEADERSHIP

       PATTERN

      Harward Business Review

       CLASSICS

      HOW TO CHOOSE

      A LEADERSHIP

      PATTERN

      Robert Tannenbaum and

      Warren H. Schmidt

      Harvard Business Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Originally published in the Harvard Business Review in 1973

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Tannenbaum, Robert.

      How to choose a leadership pattern / Robert Tannenbaum,

      Warren H. Schmidt.

      p. cm. — (The Harvard business review classics series)

      ISBN 978-1-4221-7552-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Leadership. 2. Decision making. I. Schmidt, Warren H.

      II. Title.

      HD57.7.T367 2009

      658.4’092—dc22

      2009010519

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      HOW TO CHOOSE

      A LEADERSHIP

      PATTERN