Complexity Leadership: On Time, On Budget

In complex organizations, such as large international engineering firms, practicing managers may possess administrative, enabling, and adaptive leadership styles. Each of these leadership styles must be balanced, but key performance indicators can drive imbalance in engineering management projects. We provide practicing managers with some insights to these leadership styles and their interaction to understand their benefits and challenges that may be overcome. Furthermore, we present a “balance check” that outlines symptoms of leadership imbalance to keep things from going awry.