World's Online Leadership Community. Diversity As A Predictor Of Leadership Effectiveness. Abstract Drawing upon theexisting literature, this study investigated the significance of Diversity as apredictor of leadership effectiveness, as it relates to the MultidimensionalMeasure of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX-MDM).
A study of 300 working adults found that therewas a significant positive relationship between Diversity and the four LMXdimensions of Contribution, Loyalty, Affect, and Professional Respect. Collectivism and religious affiliation wereboth strong predictors with regard to Contribution. Management Is (Still) Not Leadership - John Kotter. By John P.
Kotter | 11:00 AM January 9, 2013 A few weeks ago, the BBC asked me to come in for a radio interview. They told me they wanted to talk about effective leadership — China had just elevated Xi Jinping to the role of Communist Party leader; General David Petraeus had stepped down from his post at the CIA a few days earlier; the BBC itself was wading through a leadership scandal of its own — but the conversation quickly veered, as these things often do, into a discussion about how individuals can keep large, complex, unwieldy organizations operating reliably and efficiently. That’s not leadership, I explained. That’s management — and the two are radically different.