Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity, and Collaboration

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Harmonizing

The systemic function of leadership is to make members of the team resonate along a longitudinal wavelength to boost them toward a common goal, fostering the growth of synergies and creativity. To harmonize people in a human system you need to focus attention on the relationships between them: First you need to build them or, if they already exist, fortify them.

This part will be more important the more diverse the team is. The more diversity, the more value there is in bringing teammates together. Teams today face a complexity far beyond obvious factors such as age, educational background, or gender. They are more multicultural and are often geographically isolated from one another without the benefit of sharing a common physical ...