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    The Unofficial: How To Lead
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    The Unofficial: How To Lead
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    The Unofficial: How To Lead

    By Individual Contributor

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    If you want to read about leadership, go into any bookstore. Or search the Internet. You'll find millions of entries online and thousands of copies in bookstores. And every book has the answer. They tell you to be a situational leader, primal leader, emotionally intelligent leader, servant leader and the list goes on. Yet, many, many people still struggle with being an effective leader. And even more people are stuck with the belief they were not cut out for leadership. How can so much information on leadership result in so few effective leaders?

     

    Perhaps reading about leadership is analogous to reading a book on riding a bicycle. If you read the best-selling book on how to ride a bike, you'll still get on the bicycle and lose your balance. If you're a child, you'll most likely fall. Therefore, reading about leadership won't guarantee your understanding of leadership.

     

    In addition, people have ideas about what it means to be a leader. In some cases, it comes from Hollywood images. Hollywood often portrays successful CEOs as tough, ruthless, begetters. On one hand, everyone knows Hollywood is make believe. At the same time, those images stick in your head, especially when those images are associated with success.

     

    Furthermore, there are books that focus on how to intimidate others. Intimidation is used by some to demonstrate authority and control. However, while command and control is believed to be obsolete, it's still used. Force, manipulation and intimidation are still tools used by some leaders. In the short-term, they produce results. In the long-term, they create unhappy, resentful employees. And resentful employees have a tendency to get revenge on the boss. This can happen in some of the best-known enterprises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndividual Contributor
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9781393205524
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