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Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it
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Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it

by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
August 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
272 pages
5h 54m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Ensure That Everyone Becomes Responsible

When everyone is a leader, then everyone is responsible for guiding the organization toward its future. Everyone is responsible for maintaining alignment with values. It is not just the job of the person in authority. The whole point of liberating people is so they can take the initiative to do something on their own. When you have liberated the leaders within your constituents, you will see individuals go right to fixing the problem instead of just fixing the blame.

What follow from liberation and the freedom to take initiative are responsibility and accountability for your actions. If everyone is a leader, then everyone accepts the responsibilities of leadership. In this sense, everyone is a citizen, ...

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