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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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Initiate Renewal: New Beginnings from the Old Ending

People run down. Energy runs out. Talent gets stale. Organizations get stuck. Challenges continue and threats mount, and the old ways of doing things don't work anymore. If you persist in operating by the rules of the past, you can't hope to have new visions of the future. If fear and anxiety grip the workforce, action is strangled. The forward movement that defines the very nature of leadership comes to a halt.

Leaders and constituencies must first acknowledge that what once worked may not work any longer, and then they must be able to enter into a zone of uncertainty that is at first frightening but from which they emerge reenergized and renewed. In nearly every “personal best leadership” ...

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