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The Power of Leadership Insight
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The Power of Leadership Insight

by Casey J. Bedgood
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
118 pages
2h 43m
English
Productivity Press
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9 The Risk of Underestimating Leadership Value

DOI: 10.4324/9781003439127-9

Value Defined

Value can be defined as anything a customer is willing to pay for (1). Merriam-Webster defines value as ‘a fair return in goods, services, or money for something exchanged.’ From a leadership perspective, what does value really mean? Is leadership value the ability to tell good stories and play politics? Is value in leadership a great resume with industry leading credentials? Does high value for leaders correlate with the ability to implement large scale change successfully? Can a leader be seen as a high value contributor if they save the organization money? We will discuss these and more considerations in the following.

Leadership value is a multidimensional ...

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