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The Key Leadership Skill?

Great Leadership By Dan

In the 1970’s the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede developed a way of looking at cultural differences. Leadership may well be about vision and inspiration and charisma and motivation but at its heart leadership is about communication, and at least half of communication is about listening. Thank you very much. The leadership lesson.

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By Being Authentic, You May Just Be Conforming

Harvard Business Review

Geert Hofstede, the author of the pioneering book Culture’s Consequences , makes that point when he talks about how his Dutch modesty failed to win him the job he wanted with an American firm.)