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Tag Archives: commitment
Leadership Lessons from the Eiffel Tower
What do you see when effective leadership happens? I’m willing to bet you see DAC: Direction, Alignment and Commitment. On my second installment of videos from the Eiffel Tower, I thought about this as I took in Paris from the tower’s …
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Leadership beyond leaders and followers: The case of the no-tipping policy, Pt 1
In my first two posts (27 Aug 2008 and 24 Sep 2008) I wrote about leadership in situations where there is no leader, in the sense that there is no asymmetrical influence, no person with more influence than others. I argued …
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Leadership Beyond Leaders and Followers, part 2
In my first post I wrote about the interest I and some colleagues of mine here at CCL have in leadership in situations where there is no leader, that is, no person with more influence over others than others have …
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Leadership Beyond Leaders and Followers
A lot of people think of a leader as a person who influences other people more than other people influence her or him. This extra increment of influence might come from the leader’s superior knowledge, inspiring vision, personal magnetism, greater …
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