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Leadership Lessons From Best-Selling Authors - E723
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An offhand compliment from a leader becomes praise. An offhand insult becomes a verdict. Nobody in a leadership role gets to opt out of that. Three conversations from the BRAVE archive with three best-selling authors, and one thing they share: all three went and checked what everybody already assumes about leadership, and found the data pointing the other way. Adam Galinsky is a professor at Columbia Business School, currently spending a year at NUS Business School in Singapore, and the author of Inspire. He explains the leader amplification effect...
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Since 2008, companies rated bad on governance have beaten the ones rated good. Students who pictured an A on the exam got worse grades than the students who didn't. Most of what we repeat about leadership has never actually been tested. Three conversations from the archive with three best-selling authors.
Adam Galinski of Columbia on why leaders never get to choose whether they affect people, only how. Eric Ries of the Lean Startup on the one asset nobody teaches founders to protect. Near AL on why knowing exactly what to do changes nothing. Starting with the offhand remark that lands like a verdict.
I started thinking about leaders again and I started realizing something really important which is that leaders have no choice in whether they impact others. So I coined a phrase called the leader amplification effect. And the idea of a leader amplification effect is an offhand compliment by a leader becomes
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