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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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Through Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant has had the chance to meet and work with many business, political, and social leaders in his campaign to improve the financial literacy of the poor. He said of those leaders who are the most exemplary: “They all are leaders whose successes have come from caring more about others than themselves. Their power comes from love. That's why people want to follow them.”33

While he's from an entirely different background, author and quality consultant Pat Townsend, a retired Marine Corps major, would agree with John. Pat wrote about leadership while in the Corps and made these observations:

Perhaps the most obvious thing that leadership and love have in common is the act of caring about the ...

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