Leading from the Middle
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- Business Ethics
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Overview: Article asserts that managers must be ready to take up the reins of leadership, and that includes calculating risks, voicing concerns, and guiding uncertain superiors. An unexplored but critical side of leadership is "upward leadership," getting results by guiding the boss. Leading up is a matter of offering your strategic insights or persuading a boss to change directions before it is too late. It requires an ability to work in two directions at once, of stepping into the breach when nobody above you is doing so, and of listening to those below you before you step off a cliff yourself. Once established, though, an organization-wide emphasis on leading upward serves as a kind of inertial guidance system, continually reminding everybody that they are obliged to stand up without the need for superiors to ask for them to do so.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
