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This book uses the term ‘top-down direction setting’ instead of the more popular term ‘leadership’. One reason for this is that definitions of leadership in the literature vary greatly from author to author. According to one estimate, there are currently at least one hundred accepted academic definitions of leadership (Terry, quoted in Manz et al., 1991).
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© 1997 Magne Y. Orgland
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Orgland, M.Y. (1997). Top-down Direction Setting. In: Initiating, Managing and Sustaining Strategic Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14470-9_5
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