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Chapter from: "Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader"
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2021
Version: 10 February 2015

Abstract

Herminia Ibarra - an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school - shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In 'Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader', she offers advice to help you: Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions; Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders; Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar - and possibly outdated - leadership style to evolve. Chapter 4 discusses how authenticity is misunderstood and highly overrated when it comes to making the transition to new and unfamiliar roles. It shows how to work toward a future version of your authentic self by stretching way outside the boundaries of who you are today.

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Abstract

Herminia Ibarra - an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school - shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In 'Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader', she offers advice to help you: Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions; Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders; Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar - and possibly outdated - leadership style to evolve. Chapter 4 discusses how authenticity is misunderstood and highly overrated when it comes to making the transition to new and unfamiliar roles. It shows how to work toward a future version of your authentic self by stretching way outside the boundaries of who you are today.

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