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Leadership in Action: Inside Out: Transforming Your Leadership Culture
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Leadership in Action: Inside Out: Transforming Your Leadership Culture

by John B. McGuire, Gary Rhodes, Charles J. Palus
February 2008
Beginner
5 pages
20m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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THREE AREAS

What does it take to be a leader of change toward cultural transformation? We have identified three areas that create individual readiness and capacity for inside-out culture change.

Control Center

How important is it to you to manage and control the change process? How comfortable and open are you to the uncertain, unexpected, and unpredicted? The extent of the need to own or control change defines a leader's control center.

Control is usually a highly charged and emotional issue for leaders, who face internal pressure to perform. Even so, successful leaders of change move away from tightly held control and view themselves as instruments and strategic influencers of change. They distinguish between what is controllable and what needs ...

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ISBN: 9781604912333