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Simple Truths of Leadership
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Simple Truths of Leadership

by Ken Blanchard, Randy Conley
January 2022
Beginner
176 pages
1h 53m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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SIMPLE TRUTH #21

Servant leaders don’t command people to obey; they invite people to follow.

I’ve met a number of leaders who get upset when they give an order and people don’t obey it immediately. They think when you are a leader, if you tell people what to do, they should blindly submit.

The reality is that most people don’t like to be told to do something. They like to be involved in decisions. That’s why I talk about servant leadership being a better way of leading than top-down, command-and-control leadership. Servant leaders know people want to be part of the team. They invite their people to follow them in a side-by-side working relationship that the people have had a part in creating.

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ISBN: 9781523000647