February 23, 2012
Samuel Bacharach is an eCornell faculty author, Cornell Professor and Director of the Industrial and Labor Relations School’s New York City-based Institute for Workplace Studies. On the Bacharach Blog he discusses The Micro-Political Skills of Change Leadership as it relates to his work with eCornell:
You can write, you can teach, you can lecture, you can train, but in the final analysis the test of your ideas is in the hands of the practitioners.
At this point in my career the highest point of flattery is to hear someone say, “Your leadership model works,” “It makes a difference,” or “It’s of some use.”
On top of that, having put such emphasis on the micro-political skills as an essential aspect of leadership, what is especially flattering is to have a real world political leader make use of my leadership perspective.
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