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Leadership is a Team Sport

Leadership is a team sport. If you want to build anything of significance, you need to engage others.
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What is leadership? According to Professor Robert Kaplan, no one knows exactly what leadership is.  In his talk at The Nantucket Project called Mentorship as Dialogue: The Changing Face, and Faces, of Coaching and Mentorship, it comes down to three basic things: Figure out what you believe, ability to act on those beliefs, and your actions add value to someone else.

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