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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. The leadership lesson. 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.

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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." Top-down leadership exists everywhere. It has the highest power distance of any country in the world: a staggering 104 on the Hofstede comparative power distance index. When businesses fail to address issues of power, they remain vulnerable to failure.

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By Being Authentic, You May Just Be Conforming

Harvard Business Review

And the comparisons don’t stop there — news reports consistently label Jun’s leadership style as imposture. ” In this age of authentic leadership , originality is at a premium, and people perceive imitation as more fakery than flattery. Leadership Managing yourself' He gets the audience pumped.”