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7 Things Leaders Can Do to be Refreshingly Different

Lead Change Blog

Political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann calls this behavior the spiral of silence. A few weeks ago I was jamming to the radio while traveling to a meeting. Paused at a stoplight, I glanced at the car to my right. The driver met my eyes, shook his head, and made the cuckoo gesture. I smiled and kept on singing. Had this situation occurred early on in my personal journey, I would have responded very differently.

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Spiral of Silence

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The Spiral of Silence, a mass communication theory introduced by Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann in 1974, suggests that the more prevalent and popular a position is, the more people fear opposing that position in public. Trapped by Silence. Leaders don’t always operate democratically, but most will solicit views from team members before making decisions. They may ask for a show of hands or “aye” votes.

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leadership and management models download- page 2a

Rapid BI

Noelle Neumann. Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. These pages have proved so popular that we now offer unbranded PowerPoint slides for you to download and use. Please note many of the models on the slides are copyright – please use appropriately. Go back to page 1 of the models.