Managing life cycle demands through a leadership agenda
- 16(3) Mar 1993, p.295-324
This article stresses that leaders can prepare their organisations to manage successfully life cycle demands. To this end, organizations are prepared to cope when leaders develop agendas that systematically manage chance. In this process change is anticipated information is collected, and organizations are positioned to satify life cycle demands. It is our view that successfully, managing life cycle demands enhaces organizational survival. Further most discussions of organizations life cycle theory concentrate on the private sector. We develop a leadership agenda model with applicability to the public sector. The model is applied by examining the life cycle experiences of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattl