What is the work of leadership? | Patricia Shaw (source)One of the ways of thinking about leadership is thinking about convening conversations that might not happen otherwise.
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Comment: At its heart, Conversational Leadership is about facilitating the essential yet unlikely conversations—those that wouldn’t take place without someone making space for them.
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