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Leadership styles
There are two ways in which leaders develop their personal styles:
- High self-monitors are naturally able to try on different styles until they find a good fit for themselves. They adapt to the demands of a situation without feeling fake. They care about managing their public image and may mask their vulnerability.
- True-to-selfers tend to express what they really think and feel, even when it is counter to situational demands. It may make people question their ability to do the job.
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Processing negative feedback
Negative feedback given to leaders is often about style and not about their skills or expertise. Negative feedback can then feel like a threat to their ability.
However, if they rationalize their behaviour and think their style is unchangeable, it may eventually lead to their undoing.
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Selling your ideas (and yourself)
Leadership growth usually means shifting from having good ideas to pitching them to diverse stakeholders. Inexperienced leaders, especially true-to-selfers, often find the process of getting buy-in artificial and political because they think their work should stand on its own mer...
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Why leaders struggle with authenticity
- In trying to improve our game, a firm sense of self is a compass, but when we want to change our game, a too rigid self-concept can prevent us from moving forward.
- In global business, we often work with people who don't share our cultural ...
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Authenticity has become a mark for leadership
An oversimplified understanding of what it means to be transparent can prevent your growth and limit your influence. When we feel out of our comfort zone, we can often use authenticity as an excuse for sticking with what's comfortable.
For example, a promotion into a l...
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Ways to gain an external perspective
Without the benefit of an external perspective we get from experimenting with new leadership behaviours, habitual patterns of thought fence us in.
- Learn from diverse role models. We should view authenticity not as an intrinsic state but instead as the ability to adop...
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