Why Everyone Should See Themselves as a Leader

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sue Ashford, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, breaks down her decades of research on leadership—who achieves it, and how a group grants it. She explains that the world isn’t divided into leaders and followers. Instead, it’s a state that everyone can reach, whether they’re officially in charge or not. She also explains why shared leadership benefits a team and organization. Ashford offers tips on how to effectively grow leadership in yourself and your employees.

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0:38.0	He's a natural leader. She was born to lead. Those are big compliments to hear in the working world,
0:45.0	but they make it sound like leadership is something you have
0:48.0	or something you don't.
0:50.0	Our guest today says,
0:51.0	sure, leadership does come more easily to some people than others, but really
0:55.6	it's more fluid than that.
0:57.7	And actually everybody can be a leader with a little practice.
1:00.7	Sue Ashford has been studying for decades what makes people see themselves as
1:04.8	leaders and how a group chooses the leader or leaders among them. She's a professor
1:09.6	at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and she's here with me now.
1:13.6	Sue, thanks for talking with the HBR Ideacast.
1:16.2	It's my pleasure, happy to talk about leadership.
1:19.1	So how does someone usually start to identify themselves as a leader?
1:24.6	There is no particular scientific answer to that question.
1:29.9	Other people see it in us or we want to develop it and we go out and we make little attempts at it.
1:36.7	We try to claim it.
1:38.4	We try to lead and we see what happens.
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