Front Line Leadership™ ‐ A Challenge to the Continual Search for the Holy Grail of an All‐encompassing Leadership Model

Abstract

Written partially in response to a previous paper published in this Journal suggesting that leadership and leaders are categorised as ‘transformational’ or ‘transactional’, the author suggests that these definitions are too narrow to be reflective of reality. It is instead argued that true and effective leaders operate in a multidimensional framework that combines styles, skills, attributes and abilities that fall within what we commonly refer to as management and leadership. It is suggested that there is a need to move on and to accept that there is not an all‐encompassing model, definition or style of leadership.

Citation

Cullen, R. (2007), "Front Line Leadership™ ‐ A Challenge to the Continual Search for the Holy Grail of an All‐encompassing Leadership Model", International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/17479886200700002