Show Notes

Article critiqued in this episode:

The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
by Sunnie Giles
March 15, 2016

In this episode:

We reconsider leadership as a process, rather than a role, which is available to everyone. With a sampling of ten leadership competencies presented in the HBR article we shift the position from external to internal, from being leaders of others to being leaders of ourselves.

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