Thursday 21 May 2015

How To Be An Engaging Leader: How Power-Hungry Bosses Keep Their Power



How To Be An Engaging Leader
How Power-Hungry Bosses Keep Their Power




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Charleen Case and Jon Maner, researchers at Northwestern’s Kellogg School, surveyed university students to identify individuals who like to wield authority over others. They then showed that when those individuals felt insecure about their positions, they tried to prevent highly skilled “subordinates” from bonding and forming cooperative relationships. When asked to choose seating arrangements, for example, these leaders separated the most capable of the subordinates from all the other people. In doing so, they blocked the kinds of peer-to-peer interactions that foster group success—even though they had been instructed that cooperation among subordinates would enhance the group’s performance.

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