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…leadership applies at all levels, and it emerges even when not accompanied by formal authority.
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415 |
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…leadership is not simply about a position or title. An individual can have a high-sounding title such as CEO and not be considered a leader. And that… is an enormous problem.
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415 |
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Voluntarily following a leader is… making a bet on the future, relinquishing some degree of control over one’s fortune to someone else in the expectation that benefits will accrue from it.
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416 |
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Genuine leadership requires an understanding of what the follower wants and how the leader can help them get it.
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416 |
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…genuine leadership… is congruent in all aspects only with a Partnership culture.
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416 |
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…there is no difference between the qualities that are important for truly effective business leadership and the qualities that are typically used to describe a charismatic leader.
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418 |
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A lack of integrity… is toxic to the trust that is the foundation of the leader-follower relationship.
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424 |
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The amount of time a company can count on holding on to market leadership… creates an imperative for even the most entrenched companies to invest in innovation.
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34 |
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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
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35 |
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Building an adaptive organization… requires executive leadership to sponsor and support the process.
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