Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it
by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Tension Between Definitions of Success
What's the criterion for leadership success? Is success defined only in terms of the scale and scope of influence? Is the ultimate objective of leaders to have the largest number of constituents? Are leaders successful only if they can spread their influence beyond the plant or department to the company? Or beyond the company to the country? Or even beyond the country to an international audience? Is it possible to be judged a credible and successful leader if you guide only 12 people to places they have never been before? Or must it be 120, 1,200, 12,000, 120,000, or 1,200,000? Is it the responsibility of successful leaders to enlist ever greater numbers of constituents in their vision and values? Can leaders ...
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