Authentic leadership, an approach that is linked to humanistic psychology, is based on the idea that leaders are effective by being true to themselves, and being open and authentic with others. The focus is on who the leader is as a person, and how he or she conveys that to others.
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- Does it feel lonely at the top? Do you feel you take responsibility for everything? Do you wish your team would step up and take more ownership of challenges? Authentic Leadership helps to engage your whole team passionately in the responsibilities of running the organisation.
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By Sarah Fenson
- So to be truly genuine - or authentic -a leader requires a few things: To ensurethat one's corporate actions and rhetoric arealigned; to ensure that such actions aremeaningful (as opposed to superficial,headline-grabbing actions that don'ttake root beyond theorganization's need for disingenuouspublicity); and to ensure that one's publicpersona and private core are not at odds.
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By Bill George
- Bill George, Harvard professor is the author of a number of books on authentic leadership and is considered the authority on the subject. Here's a brief biography.
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By n a
- Read about Reuben Mark's 23 year career as CEO of Colgate-Palmolive. What is so markable - other than his long tenure - is that his leadership style was so simple and made good sense.
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By Bill George
- Authentic Leadership: This week Harvard Business School's Jim Aisner talks with Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, about how leaders who are true to themselves add significant value to their organizations.
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By Polly LaBarre
- f leadership is so important, why are effective business leaders so rare? Kevin Cashman, a Minneapolis-based leadership coach, thinks that he has the answer: "Too many people separate the act of leadership from the leader. They see leadership as something that they do -- rather than as an expression of who they are."
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- Transcript (adobe acrobat) of an address made by Michael Chender at the 2002 Authentic Leadership Summer Program. This approach to authentic leadership has roots in Eastern thought, increasing awareness, and meditation.
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