Maren Ehlers
Assistant to the Management Board
Phone: +49 4262 93 12 - 0
maren.ehlers@mwteam.com
"There is no such thing as the ideal leadership style." This was the central message of Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey, the developers of the situational leadership approach, back in 1968. They postulated that managers must demonstrate different leadership behavior depending on the situation and the person they are dealing with.
An increasing pace of environmental change, growing complexity and a shortage of resources are leading the trends in the context of leadership and presenting management with new challenges. The architecture of companies is also changing - the focus is on process and value creation orientation, decentralization of decision-making processes, self-control and continuous improvement.