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7 Things Leaders Can Do to be Refreshingly Different

Lead Change Blog

Back then, I would have stopped singing immediately because, as Locke puts it, the “threat of condemnation or disgrace from one’s fellows is a powerful motivation.” Political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann calls this behavior the spiral of silence. Other times, we may do something even more harmful than changing an answer.