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Four Ways to Avoid the “Leadership Cliff” in 2013

Four Ways to Avoid the “Leadership Cliff” in 2013 | Serving and Leadership | Scoop.it

With just four days left in the year, Americans are eagerly watching and waiting for governmental leaders to reach a budget agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff” – a series of tax increases and spending reductions that will be triggered in 2013. A failure to find a solution will not just send the U.S. economy off a fiscal cliff, it will represent our political leaders falling off a “leadership cliff” as well.


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(From the article): From my perspective, the most damaging leadership cliff from which leaders fall is that of breaking trust with their followers.Repairing broken trust can be a long and arduous process, and the best way to build trust with others is to not break it in the first place. But how does a leader go aboutintentionally building trust? There are four ways:

donhornsby's curator insight, December 27, 2012 12:40 PM

(From the article):From my perspective, the most damaging leadership cliff from which leaders fall is that of breaking trust with their followers.Repairing broken trust can be a long and arduous process, and the best way to build trust with others is to not break it in the first place. But how does a leader go aboutintentionally building trust? There are four ways:

David Hain's curator insight, December 29, 2012 3:51 AM

Let's pray they take one - wish I was confident they have the breadth of vision to think about the environment and the people rather than the politics

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"Fight or Flight" Theory Debunked: Stress Makes Men More Sociable and Cooperative

"Fight or Flight" Theory Debunked: Stress Makes Men More Sociable and Cooperative | Serving and Leadership | Scoop.it
Rather than succumbing to the primitive “fight or flight” instinct, men actually become more sociable and cooperative when under stress, according to new psychological study.

 

Researchers from the University of Freiburg, Germany said that their latest findings debunk “a nearly 100-year-old doctrine,” that while women showed an alternate "tend-and-befriend" response to stress and became more protective and more sociable, and men became more aggressive.

 

Rather than succumbing to the primitive “fight or flight” instinct, when under stress men actually become more sociable and cooperative, according to new psychological study.

 

"Apparently men also show social approach behavior as a direct consequence of stress," co-researcher Bernadette von Dawans of the University of Freiburg in Germany said in a statement.


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