Leadership competencies: An exploratory study of what is important now and what has changed since the terrorist attacks of 9/11

By Taylor E. Sparks
University of Georgia

William A. Gentry
Center for Creative Leadership

Summary

This exploratory study attempts to identify the leadership competencies that managers believe are needed to be successful across different managerial levels and organization types (manufacturing, finance, insurance, and banking, health, transportation, communications, and utilities, wholesale and retail trade, private nonprofit, and public) and presents an analysis of whether changes in the importance of certain leadership competencies over time coincided with the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States…

Citation

Sparks, T. E., & Gentry, W. A. (2008). Leadership competencies: An exploratory study of what is important now and what has changed since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Journal of Leadership Studies, 2 (2), 22–35. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.20059

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