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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? My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. The trappings: Look in your driveway.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

But my peer-review literature search revealed no similar ways to assess how willing leaders are to be influenced or how transparent they are about how they can best be influenced. In the 1960s and 1970s, we embraced participative leadership ; in the 1990s, we were lured by the learning organization.