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how can I get myself into a situation where I have the necessary sources of power to be able to correctly identify important business issues and then to provide leadership in dealing with those issues?

needed—because of increased interdependence—is a much larger number of people who have leadership skills, broadly defined.

A key part of this power-development strategy usually involves (as it did in this case) moving toward projects or jobs or departments that are strategically important to the organization.6

If leaders don’t articulate their priorities clearly, then the people around them don’t know what their own priorities should be. Time and energy and capital get wasted.

Career Management course at Harvard.

Effective leadership in a job that includes a complicated set of lateral relationships requires, first, a keen sense of where those relationships are.

we need people who see their roles as those of actively leading subordinates, peers, bosses, and outsiders to achieve responsible results within their domains of activity.