5 ways people fake leadership and how to spot them

Can we make it harder for pretenders to get away with it?

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BY Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Amy Edmondson

Although we love to assume that leadership must change from one year to the next—prompting us to reimagine or reinvent it on a regular basis—the reality is far more mundane.

Whatever you lead and whenever you lead, the essence of the leadership challenge remains fundamentally unchanged: Can you turn a group of people into a high-performing team? Can you convince a group of people to set aside their individualistic, selfish agendas to be part of a cohesive, coordinated unit? Can you persuade people to cooperate to get ahead of competing teams? Can you find ways to help people trade in comfort in the present to help produce a desired result in the future? And perhaps most diagnostic of all the questions: What will happen in the group, team, or organization you are responsible for that would not have happened if you were not there?

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