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Don Argus () and Danny Samson ()
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Don Argus: Australia Advisory Board
Danny Samson: University of Melbourne

Chapter Chapter 1 in Strategic Leadership for Business Value Creation, 2021, pp 3-46 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the impact of leadership on organisations and their performance outcomes, illustrated starkly with data from National Australia Bank (NAB) where we worked, and other organisations. We then derive from our experience and from more general knowledge and examples, a set of specific characteristics, often referred to as leadership traits elsewhere, that are the key components of effective leadership. We acknowledge that such traits need to be adjusted for the contingencies of different situations yet argue that sound leadership has these basic characteristics in common, albeit customised. These characteristics can be developed, and for developmental guidance we state a set of ‘leadership axioms’ that have sound conceptual foundation, and practical value in helping developing leaders to clearly envisage and put in to practice an answer to the key question about leadership: ‘What works?’

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-9430-4_1

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