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Small Acts of Leadership
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Small Acts of Leadership

by G. Shawn Hunter
October 2016
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 44m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 9 Inspire Others

When I was a teenager, I worked at a greenhouse and had a boss who gave vague instructions, such as, “Go water the plants.” That’s pretty nonspecific in a nursery that covers five acres. So I would disappear and water plants for several hours, never knowing how much water to give, or which plants required more or less water. In addition to the lack of direction, I found the whole thing pretty boring. I lasted about six weeks before I quit. I never questioned what I was doing or why. Inspired I was not.

The previous chapters describe ways to build great teams and lead them, but the one component that every great leader needs is inspiration, as we explore in this chapter.

One of the greatest predictors of effectiveness, ...

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ISBN: 9781351818513