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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

Some people are born with an inherent ability to get others to follow them. However, charisma isn’t the only trait of a great leader. Leaders’ honesty and ability to follow a set of ethics in all of their work affects their ability to influence their followers. Great leaders have Integrity.

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Do We Talk About Values Too Much?

LDRLB

Unfortunately, our society and organizations seem to lack many of these true role models, and we instead settle for looking up to those who speak the loudest, rather than live the life they talk about. We promote and revere charisma, rather than service. Quit talking about what you “should” do…and do it.

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10 Steps to Creating a Talent Advantage

N2Growth Blog

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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Don’t Try to Be the “Fun Boss” — and Other Lessons in Ethical Leadership

Harvard Business Review

We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., We combined data across these 30 independent studies to examine the relationship between personality and ethical leadership across a range of different settings and situations. Creating an Ethical Workplace. But power does not corrupt everyone.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This is my favorite because it addresses fear, a huge negative (and silent) driver that keeps leaders from speaking up against injustice, lack of ethics, morality issues and other things that damage individuals and people in our organizations. We want to follow people with confidence, charisma and a strong sense of direction.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985). This is a description that conjures up faith and respect in your leader. Transformational leadership.

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

Carlyle believed that history could largely be explained through the actions of “great men,” individuals who he believed exerted high levels of influence over others through their inborn charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or drive for power. PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP THEORY. SERVANT LEADERSHIP THEORY.