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Corporate tribes: The heart of effective leadership

โœ Scribed by Dave Logan; John King; Halee Fischer-Wright

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Weight
374 KB
Volume
2008
Category
Article
ISSN
1087-8149

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โœฆ Synopsis

very leader wants to become a better leader, if not a "great" leader. But few ever make it beyond average-even if they work hard at developing themselves. Why is this the case? Because the more you develop yourself as a leader, the less of a leader you are.

That might sound counterintuitive, but we at Culture-Sync have just spent the past 10 years conducting a study of 24,000 people in more than two dozen corporations. By focusing on the culture in which leadership happens-rather than just on what leaders do or saywe came up with some outside-the-box findings. Our goal was to understand why leadership appears effortless in some situations and chronically ineffective in others.

Our study uncovered a slew of surprising findings on leadership that explain why some leaders, and their organizations, never get past the striving stage. In addition to our research study, the insights we've gleaned have come from such leading and diverse figures as Brian France,

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