The Leadership March

"The Leadership March," Electric Perspectives, Stu Pearman and Samuel T. Poston, January/February 2004.

Electric utility industry managers and executives need to learn new patterns of leadership in order to move their organizations in the same direction during a period of constant flux.

 

For the past decade, since the 1992 Energy Policy Act initiated the wholesale market, it seems the electric utility industry has been poised on a precipice, waiting for a wholesale transformation. Even if the much-debated energy bill passes, it appears that the industry will not align in a stable formation anytime soon. Instead, continued ambiguity, complexity, and indecision about direction will be commonplace.

 

That's the challenge for today's leaders at all levels of the utility organization. Just as the state of flux is arguably unprecedented, so is the need for leadership.Read more to find out.

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