What has happened is that the partnership process has
failed. Even if both of these diagnoses are correct, the
corresponding leadership style has been misperceived
because of a lack of communication. What we have found
over the years is that Situational Leadership is not something
you do to people; it's something you do with them. This
realization motivated Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler Wood ring,
and Laurie Hawkins to develop Situational Self
Leadership.3