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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

You’re well aware that you’ll need to rely on your emotional intelligence skills to understand and work through your new team’s dynamics. I’m not sure they even really need a manager, they’re that good and that motivated.” Let’s look at each motivator in turn. You’re pumped.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

But hierarchies are flattening as power moves away from top internal management and toward employees and a proliferation of external stakeholders. Leaders motivated by power over others will not thrive in this new world. Altrocentric leaders, on the other hand, derive power from motivating, not controlling, others.