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Good Bosses Switch Between Two Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Which situations call for dominant leadership? One way to do this is through perspective taking.

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The Eight Archetypes of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. The builder: leadership as an entrepreneurial activity. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation.