Common sense, and the work on situational leadership by Hersey and Blanchard, suggest otherwise.

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When I was a PhD student at Yale, I studied with one of the fathers of situational leadership, Victor Vroom.

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Situational leadership theory holds that leaders are most effective if they adopt different leadership styles depending on the task and the people they are leading.

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No one quarrels much with the wisdom of situational leadership anymore.

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