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What’s Your Leadership Origin Story?
Research found four dominant themes of origin stories among leaders: being, engaging, performing, and accepting.
These themes act as lenses, contributing to how leaders see themselves.
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Great leadership style is different from your own personality. It derives from the social markers that we express in the workplace.
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Our default leadership style is called natural style. Whenever we are in neutral situations it is our selected option and we behave relatively powerful with it.
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