The second of my three small/short books on leadership is How to Choose a Leadership Pattern by Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Smith and published by Harvard Business Press. This book is part of the Harvard Business Review Class series. Tannenbaum and Smith set the tone of this book by briefly exploring some of the history of leadership styles. From the authoritative style of years ago to the n...

Evolution is well underway in the area of teams. As Tannenbaum, Mathieu, Salas, and Cohen (2012) aptly convey, today’s teams are increasingly complex! Teams are no longer relatively straightforward extensions of individually-based jobs; rather, teams are increasingly capitalizing on technological advances joining together larger, more diverse, more highly specialized, and often distributed sets...

David Tannenbaum,a Craig R. Fox,b Gülden Ülkümen c aDavid Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; bAnderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024; cMarshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Contact: [email protected] (DT); [email protected]...