Talk:Hersey–Blanchard situational theory

expressing a point of view ?

 * A good situational leader is one who can quickly change leadership styles as the situation changes. Most of us attempt to do this in our dealings with people: we try not to get angry with a new employee, and we remind forgetful people. The model doesn't apply only to people in leadership or management positions, all people lead others at work, at play, and at home.

It seems to me that the first sentence assumes that the reader believes this theory. Some people might think that a good leader is one who controls the situation enough to never have to change his or her style. The second sentence assumes that most people try not to get angry with new employees, and that most people remind forgetful people. I think statements like "most" need sources, if I understand Wikipedia well enough. Furthermore, the last statement that "all people lead others" is contrary to many different philosophies on the subject of human choice and it's existence or non-existence.

I'm not sure how I'd like this to read, since I'm not an expert on this subject, but I think there might be some room for improvement along those lines.

This doesnt help me in what i am looking for. I am looing for an article on Situational and inerationist theory based on the theories by- Lewin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.66.126.13 (talk) 10:46, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I think it is fine, and word of caution
I think the article is fine, it doesn't read like an advertisement to me. Also, a word of caution about writing about and using this theory outside of purchased legal use--they are very serious about their copyrights. They make the military pay for each and every single picture of the situational leadership model that is used to the point that we couldn't even print out small black and white powerpoint handouts of it for our students. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.207.205.204 (talk) 00:00, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate
Seems to be almost identical to Situational leadership theory —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.155.110 (talk) 16:53, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

No question about it in my mind, this is a duplicate of Situational leadership theory. In addition, this articles is poorly named. SLT or Situataional Leadership Theory is the work of Hersey and Blanchard. Lowercase "situational theory" is vague and not as useful. I suggest that this article be merged into the the Situational Leadership Theory Page and that this page then redirect to that one.

I added the merge template to suggest a merge to the page you suggested above. Matglas86 (talk) 10:50, 30 October 2010 (UTC)