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Randall Gwin

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Tag: leadership

Women’s Day Leadership

On Monday, the price of tulips and roses tripled. All day, there have been lines in the grocery stores, many … More

culture, gender, leadership

Nasty, brutish, short – and effective? The LMX (Leader-Membership Exchange)

It’s brutal. It’s nasty. It leaves you solitary and poor, and makes your career aspirations short.

leader-membership exchange, leadership, LMX
burana tower

…and in this situation, hide your humility…

Good leaders need to be willing to learn and willing to trust. However, in some cultures or situations, good leaders need to act as if they know everything and do not trust anyone; they sometimes need to hide their humility and vulnerability.

culture, humility, leadership, McChrystal, strength
situational leadership

Situational Model® Leadership is awful – except when it’s right.

The flaws in the Situational Model’s operational definitions, theoretical basis, lack of cross-cultural and psychological foundations, and foundational research all prevent me from embracing it as a model. However,…

culture, leadership, research-based, situational model leadership
self portrait

How do introverts lead? By redefining “introversion.”

Returning to the standard definition of extroversion instead of the Jungian definition should give hope to the 50% of the population who Myers-Briggs labels introverts. Standard-definition extroversion is correlated strongly with leadership because people tend to follow people who like them.

Big Five, extraversion, introversion, leadership, Myers-Briggs, online leadership, personality
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