Why should anyone be led by you?: what it takes to be an authentic leader
- Boston Harvard Business School Press 2006
- 244p.
Offers a wise, sensitive, and sensible guide to becoming the best leader you can be by genuinely caring about infusing followers' lives with meaning and purpose. Argues that leaders don’t become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits but rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage follower’s hearts, minds, and souls. They are skillful at consistently being themselves, even as they alter their behaviors to respond effectively in changing contexts.
978-1-57851-971-2
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