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Footnotes, Not Headlines: The Altrocentric Leader |
“If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
—William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas, sociologists
AT A GLANCE
THE ALTROCENTRIC LEADER
Five Essential Points
- The era of alpha-male leadership is over. Leaders who place themselves center stage and lead predominantly by coercing and pacesetting have a misguided understanding of the nature of leadership. They will not cope with the megatrend storm.
- Leadership is a social practice. Leadership is not a set of fixed attributes possessed by certain people. It is a relationship, the nature of which depends on ...