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Heroes and Sidekicks: Ensuring Proper Followership

Monday, September 20, 2010

I can still remember 10 years ago when some of my friends and co-workers in the learning and development departments "realized" that proper leadership was the solution for almost everything wrong happening in the company. It seemed to me that we were looking for an easy scapegoat at the time - something we could target and develop to the extreme.

We needed to create a "hero" - a super-leader with all the gadgets and tools, who would be responsible for winning the war against

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