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Leaders Take Risks!

1 November 2009

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The act and practice of leadership is a risky undertaking. Leadership is the act or bringing about positive change. This requires leaders to initiate, to blaze new trails, to venture into the unknown and unexplored terrain. All of this entails risk. Kouzes and Posner in their bestselling book, “The Leadership Challenge” describes [...]

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The Myth of Leadership Ability—You Either Have It or You Don’t?

8 June 2008

One of the greatest leadership myths I come across is that people believe leadership is an inborn gift or trait possessed by a lucky few. In the post “Leadership Ability—You Either Have It or You Don’t” by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay discusses the following limitations that people place on themselves by believing this myth:

It prevents those who [...]

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