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The Language of Leadership
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The Language of Leadership

by Joel Schwartzberg
July 2021
Beginner
168 pages
2h 3m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Introduction:The Language of Leadership

Where you lead, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to. If you need me to be with you, I will follow where you lead.

—Carole King

There’s no shortage of advice on the Internet and in bookstores about business leadership.

We all know well, for example, that great leaders Eat Last, Lean In, Break the Rules, Dare to Lead, and are Radically Candid. We also know they’re extremely aware of their Tribes, Drive, and Principles. For some, leadership boils down to just two words: Steve Jobs.

We also know that admired leaders are empathic, optimistic, visionary, responsive, authentic, supportive, confident, humble . . . and a bunch of other hashtag-friendly adjectives that convey what great leaders are and do. ...

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