Report A cross-national comparison of Effective Leadership and Teamwork: Toward a Global Workforce . Quantitative research into Fortune 500 companies. Sending out over 3,000 research proposals
Yeung and Ready (1995, in above report) stated that respondents to research in major organisations in 8 countriesd found that the "ability to articulate a tangible vision, values, and strategy, is themost important leadership capability" (in CCL, 1998).
However, some people are visionary, with ideas, but cannot seem to bring these ideas to fruition - they appear to be motivated by the ideas and need a team to make those ideas into tangible assets. This is also part of effective teamwork.
I find that my company's CEO does have some excellent ideas, but the problems arise when attempting to get some specifications as to how he wants those built - even as simple as which IT platforms. It is difficult to get a commitment to discuss such fundamental issues.
Findings from this research indicate that effective team leaders are those behavior reflects cooperation towards others, responsible idealism, altruism with regard to others and optimism with regard to task success" (CCL, p.23) . That indicates that our company has effective leadership - the CEO displays all of those characteristics, all staff say they enjoy working in the team (informal comments from several meetings with staff during 2007-2008). However, senior staff frequently report frustration at the CEO's inabilty to be punctual to meetings, to even attend meetings to discuss corporate strategies regarding the building of products rather than discussion of the ideas themselves - we need to know how to make the ideas become reality.
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