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Thinking Differently with Matthew Barzun

A Bit of Optimism

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Leadership - Top Down or Bottom Up?

I saw you give a little presentation to some junior folks at the embassy that i loved. We know that top down leadership doesn't work. The buzz word is bottom up. And what you so eloquently pointed out is, it's still a triangle. Is it still highly structured? Whethe you' going up the pyramid or down the ad same shape, different directions. If you really want to change the way leadership looks and sounds, to drive in evasion and trust, you throw the pyramid out entirely. But there's this alternative out there for us, if we can learn from these other leaders. I call it the constellation. So you have pyramid thinking, which is up, down,

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