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Your Leadership Power is Contagious

Skip Prichard

How you interact with others, how you show up, how you operate all impact others around you. 5) a lack of partnership with ourselves, 6) a lack of personal power, and 7) trying to please everyone. Leadership is Contagious. You are contagious. You set the tone to create an environment that empowers or imprisons.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.