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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? McClelland called these qualities ‘socialized’ power.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. Teaching one what to do, and even how to do it, doesn't automatically create leaders. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland. And it addresses the "Who or what we are" and "How we are?"

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