After so many corporate-leadership scandals and the public’s shrinking confidence in their leaders, should we be rethinking the way leadership is taught? The way leadership has been taught doesn’t seem to be paying off, asserts author Barbara Kellerman.
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You might need leadership training if: 1. Your employees lie to you. 2. Nobody tries to poach your employees. 3. You’re always in crisis. 4. You ask yourself what you should do legally, instead of what’s the right thing to do. 5. You hog credit.
Legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham developed her tough leadership style during battles that almost sank the newspaper in the 1970s. Plagued almost daily by printers’ and pressmen’s slowdown tactics and bullying tactics from their unions, Graham worried nightly whether the next day’s paper would get out on time.
