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A Practical Definition of a Leader

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Drawing on our experience, let’s establish a practical definition of what a leader is. To that end, our baseline concept will be: A leader is the person that receives from others the trust to guide them in the pursuit of what they feel is the best possible solution from a specific initial context. Now let’s dissect that definition: 

“A leader is the person…” Leadership is a type of human relationship and, as such, runs between the emotional connections from on

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