Chapter 1. Surprising Facts About Leaders

GOALS

  • understand that the skills and concepts discussed here are aimed at your leadership development

  • recognize that leaders come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors

  • learn how leadership as service to others provides a useful alternative to more ego-based forms of leadership

We want this short book to be more of a conversation than a lecture.

A quick glance through these pages will reveal more than 70 “Your Turn” invitations—spots in the book where we pause to listen (and ask you to listen as well) for your own response and feedback to leadership questions. Of course, we cannot hear what you have to say in a literal way. But by jotting down your thoughts—right in the book, if you wish or your instructor ...

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