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7 Things Leaders Can Do to be Refreshingly Different

Lead Change Blog

Feeling silly, self-conscious, and embarrassed, I would have prayed for the red light to be short. Political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann calls this behavior the spiral of silence. This spiral is especially potent when our opinions have a moral component—that’s us trying to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong.