Gear-Shifting Leadership

Introduction—Four Gears of Leadership Development

Mid- and High-level Managers Need More Comprehensive Leadership

In the past decades, theories, schools of thought and methodologies related to or named after leadership have emerged endlessly. Under the label of leadership, a number of aspects representing different perspectives have been studied: communication-oriented, controlling-oriented, coaching-oriented, change-oriented, psychology-oriented, team development-oriented and organizational behavior-oriented.

Yet sadly, these modes focusing on one or several certain aspects of leadership tend to be mistaken as the panorama or general landscape of leadership. We see in practice that it is difficult for leaders to resolve complicated management ...