Change occurs in various ways for organizations and the leaders within them. However not all leadership styles are suited to each type of change that can occur, and so an agile and self-aware leader must have the situational intelligence to understand when to switch to one leadership style of another (Beheshti, 2018). This piece will consider the five stages of radical change and which leadership style is most fitting (Reardon, Reardon, & Rowe, 1998). Then, a look at the industry I am in, the stem cell health sector, will be given to highlight a real-world example of radical change and how leadership style was subsequently affected. Reardon, Reardon, and Rowe (1998) highlight five stages of radical change including planning, enabling, launching, catalysing, and maintaining. Planning maps out the direction for change and requires creativity and the acquisition of information, and as such requires leaders to be logical yet inspirational. The enabling stage of radical change is charac...
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