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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

For example, when participants in one of the studies were presented with a season’s worth of statistics for a star athlete who had logged worse numbers than usual, the participants were quick to conclude that the player’s career had begun an irreversible downward spiral.

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