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| | Organization Studies: Good visions, bad micro-management and ugly ambiguity: contradictions of leadership in a ... |
 | | One element in this discourse is that managers and their leadership matter, that leaders are central in determining direction and overall guidelines, in setting strategy and creating visions of the future, without which any company, according to leadership scholars, would drift purposeless and eventually lose its competitive edge. |
 | | However, when asked to specify, managers ended up talking of administrative activities and also referred to the need to be directive, clearly deviating from what is normally understood as visionary and strategy activities. |
 | | Instead, the managers seemed to be caught in what appears to be almost the opposite, what they themselves refer to as micro-management', that is, 'bad leadership'. |
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