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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. We still believe that the essence of leadership is about influencing others to do what we want them to do. Our leadership measures and language also illustrate this gap.