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by Rebecca Newton


  2. S.J. Zaccaro, J.A. Gilbert, K.K. Thor, and M.D. Mumford, “Leadership and Social Intelligence: Linking Social Perspectiveness and Behavioral Flexibility to Leader Effectiveness,” Leadership Quarterly 2, no. 4 (1991): 317–342.

  3. S.J. Zaccaro, R.J. Foti, and D.A. Kenny, “Self-Monitoring and Trait-Based Variance in Leadership: An Investigation of Leader Flexibility Across Multiple Group Situations,” Journal of Applied Psychology 76, no. 2 (1991): 308–315.

  4. G. Yukl and R. Mahsud, “Why Flexible and Adaptive Leadership Is Essential,” Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 62, no. 2 (2010): 81–93.

  5. K.M. Eisenhardt, “Making Fast Strategic Decisions in High-Velocity Environments,” Academy of Management Journal 32, no. 3 (1989): 543–576.

  CHAPTER 8: INFLUENCE WITH INTEGRITY

  1. Adapted from C. Anderson, S.E. Spataro, and F.J. Flynn, “Personality and Organizational Culture as Determinants of Influence,” Journal of Applied Psychology 93, no. 3 (2008): 702–710.

  2. H.G. Enns and D.B. McFarlin, “When Executives Influence Peers: The Role of Target Assessment, Preparation, and Tactics,” Human Resource Management 44, no. 3 (2005): 257–278.

  3. The researchers drew on the influence tactics and definitions offered by G. Yukl in Leadership in Organizations, 5th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002).

  4. A.W. Joshi, “Salesperson Influence on Product Development: Insights from a Study of Small Manufacturing Organizations,” Journal of Marketing 74, no. 1 (2010): 94–107.

  5. S.A. Furst and D.M. Cable, “Employee Resistance to Organizational Change: Managerial Influence and Leader-Member Exchange,” Journal of Applied Psychology 93, no. 2 (2008): 453–462.

  6. A.W. Joshi, “Salesperson Influence on Product Development.”

  7. R.C. Sinclaire, S.E. Moore, M.M. Mark, A.S. Soldat, and C.A. Lavis, “Incidental Moods, Source Likeability, and Persuasion: Liking Motivates Message Elaboration in Happy People,” Cognition and Emotion 24, no. 6 (2010): 940–961.

  8. See, for example, “Practice One: Model the Way” in the sixth edition of Kouzes and Posner’s international bestseller The Leadership Challenge (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017).

  9. B.Z. Posner, “Another Look at the Impact of Personal and Organizational Values Congruency,” Journal of Business Ethics 97, no. 4 (2010): 535–541. This study was a replication of earlier work by Posner and W.H. Schmidt, “Values Congruence and Differences Between the Interplay of Personal and Organizational Value Systems,” Journal of Business Ethics 12, no. 5 (1993): 341–347. The 2010 study was done to determine if the findings of the earlier study were still valid, given new economic realities and changing human resource assumptions.

  10. L. Chou, A. Wang, T. Wang, M. Huang, and B. Cheng, “Shared Work Values and Team Member Effectiveness: The Mediation of Trustfulness and Trustworthiness,” Human Relations 61, no. 12 (2008): 1713–1742.

  11. S.A. Furst et al., “Employee Resistance to Organizational Change.”

  12. R.van Dijk (Newton) and R. van Dick, “Navigating Organizational Change: Change Leaders, Employee Resistance and Work-Based Identities,” Journal of Change Management 9, no. 2 (2009): 143–163.

  13. B. Caillaud and J. Tirole, “Consensus Building: How to Persuade a Group,” American Economic Review 97, no. 5 (2007): 1877–1900.

  14. L.K. Lian and L.G. Tui, “Leadership Styles and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Effect of Subordinates’ Competence and Downward Influence Tactics,” Journal of Applied Business and Economics 13, no. 2 (2012): 59–96.

  15. J.L. Jensen, “Getting One’s Way in Policy Debates: Influence Tactics Used in Group Decision-Making Settings,” Public Administration Review 67, no. 2 (2007): 216–227.

  16. A. Pentland, “The Water Cooler Effect,” Psychology Today, November 22, 2009, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reality-mining/200911/the-water-cooler-effect.

  17. H.G. Enns et al., “When Executives Influence Peers.”

  18. M.B. Wadsworth and A.L. Blanchard, “Influence Tactics in Virtual Teams,” Computers in Human Behavior 44 (2015): 386–393.

  CHAPTER 9: THE JOINT ADVENTURER

  1. Section subtitle from J. O’Toole, J. Galbraith, and E.E. Lawler III, “The Promise and Pitfalls of Shared Leadership: When Two (or More) Heads Are Better Than One,” in Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership, eds. C.L. Pearce and J.A. Conger (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2003).

  2. A.Y. Ou, A.S. Tsui, A.J. Kinicki, D.A. Waldman, Z. Xiao, and L.J. Song, “Humble Chief Executive Officers’ Connections to Top Management Team Integration and Middle Managers’ Responses,” Administrative Science Quarterly 59, no. 1 (2014): 34–72.

  3. A.Y. Ou, D.A. Waldman, and S.J. Peterson, “Do Humble CEOs Matter? An Examination of CEO Humility and Firm Outcomes,” Journal of Management 44, no. 3 (2018): 1147–1173.

  4. A.Y. Ou et al., “Humble Chief Executive Officers’ Connections.”

  5. For an excellent resource on the power and benefits of collaboration, see H.K. Gardner, Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2016).

  6. M.D. Ensley, K.M. Hmieleski, and C.L. Pearce, “The Importance of Vertical and Shared Leadership Within New Venture Top Management Teams: Implications for the Performance of Startups,” Leadership Quarterly 17, no. 3 (2006): 217–231.

  7. See, for example, A. Seers, “Better Leadership Through Chemistry: Toward a Model of Emergent Shared Team Leadership,” in Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams: Team Leadership, vol. 3, ed. M.M. Beyerlein and D.A. Johnson (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996), 145–172; and A. Seers, T. Keller, and J.M. Wilkerson, “Can Team Members Share Leadership? Foundations in Research and Theory,” in Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership, 77–102.

  8. See, for example, D.E. Yeatts and C. Hyten, High-Performing Self-Managed Work Teams: A Comparison of Theory to Practice (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1998).

  9. See, for example, C. Manz and H.P. Sims, Business Without Bosses: How Self-Managing Teams Are Building High-Performance Companies (New York: Wiley, 1993).

  10. See, for example, C.L. Pearce and H.P. Sims, “Vertical versus Shared Leadership as Predictors of the Effectiveness of Change Management Teams: An Examination of Aversive, Directive, Transactional, Transformational, and Empowering Leader Behaviors,” Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice 6, no. 2 (2002): 172–197.

  11. See, for example, J.B. Carson, P.E. Tesluk, and J.A. Marrone, “Shared Leadership in Teams: An Investigation of Antecedent Conditions and Performance,” Academy of Management Journal 50, no. 5 (2007): 1217–1234.

  12. Passenger traffic information from Dubai Airports Media Centre, http://www.dubaiairports.ae/corporate/media-centre/fact-sheets/detail/dubai-airports, July 22, 2018. Number of employees as of date of interview in 2014.

  13. J. O’Toole et al., “The Promise and Pitfalls of Shared Leadership.”

  14. This section was adapted from R. Newton, “Collaborate Across Teams, Silos and Even Companies,” Harvard Business Review, July 25, 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/07/collaborate-across-teams-silos-and-even-companies.

  15. This section was adapted from R. Newton, “How to Co-Lead a Team,” Harvard Business Review, July 14, 2015, https://hbr.org/2015/07/how-to-co-lead-a-team.

  16. This section was adapted from R. Newton, “Strategies for Working Smoothly with Your Peers,” Harvard Business Review, June 11, 2015, https://hbr.org/2015/06/strategies-for-working-smoothly-with-your-peers.

  17. G. Barczak, F. Lassk, and J. Mulki, “Emotional Intelligence, Team Trust and Collaborative Culture,” Creativity and Innovation Management 19, no. 4 (2010): 332–345.

  18. L. Huang and J.K. Murnighan, “What’s in a Name? Subliminally Activating Trust Behavior,” Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes 111, no. 1 (2010): 62–70.

  19. F. Chiocchio, D. Forgues, D. Paradis, and I. Iordanova, “Teamwork in Integrated Design Projects: Understanding the Effects of Trust, Conflict, and Collaboration on Performance,” Project Management Journal 42, no. 6 (2011): 78–91.

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  INDEX

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

  adapting your style, 157–80

  and authenticity, 159–60

  brevity and directness, 165–67

  clarity, 166–67

  and cognitive dissonance about others, 162–63

  courage in, 171, 180

  critique, 172–79

  idea generation, 168–72

  need for, 160–62

  overview, 157–60

  owning your preferences, 170–71, 179

  pace, 163–68

  practices for, 179–80

  and vulnerability, 171

  advice/opinions, articulating, 58–59, 70, 236n1

  advocacy (focus on memorable messages), 58, 69–71, 80

  aggression, 7

  ambiguity reduction, 200–201

  amygdala, 47

  anxiety and nerves, 141–47, 156, 241n20

  apprising, 189

  Aristotle, 18, 128

  arrogance, 120

  authenticity

  vs. being natural, 13–15, 86–97, 101, 158–60, 225

  benefits of, 13

  defined, 12–13

  practice for building, 31

  Bandura, Albert, 17–18

  Barczak, Gloria, 219

  Baseball Hall of Fame, 126–27

  Berlin Wisdom Model, 128

  body language

  of the audience, reading, 97

  eye contact, 96–98, 106

  face freeze (restricted affect), 95, 106

  facial expressions, 47, 95

  focusing on slides or flip chart, 94

  hand gestures, 93, 106

  as nonverbal communication, 83–84

  shifting weight/taking small steps, 92, 106

  sitting/leaning in, 98–99

  Boyatzis, Richard, 152–55

  brain

  facial expressions’ effects on, 47

  and narrative vs. experiential focus, 143–44

  regions linked to wisdom, 129–30

  breathing, 144–45

  Brewerton, Paul, 149

  Brooks, Alison Wood, 146–47

  Brosch, T., 5–6

  Brown, Brené, 78

  bullying, 7

  Caillaud, Bernard, 195

  calming yourself, 145–47

  CALM Model of Leadership Coaching, 154

  charisma. See connection over charisma

  chemistry. See influence

  coaching with compassion, 153–56

  coalitions (forward influence), 195–97, 200

  coercion, 7

  cognitive dissonance about others, 162–63

  collaboration, 205–21

  advantages of, 205–6

  challenges of, 212–15

  commitment needed for, 213

  vs. compromise, 207

  confrontation in, 215–18

  courage in, 207

  vs. exclusiveness, 207

  forced, 212

  humility’s role in, 206, 220

  in leadership, 208–12

  practices for, 220–21

  vs. silent competition, 217

  success factors in, 210–12

  trust needed for, 218–19, 221

  vulnerability in, 208, 220, 225

  as win-win or die, 207–8

  comfort zone, 20–21, 147

  communication

  conversational flow, 75–76

  powerful vs. powerless language, 84–86, 99–101

  speaking speed, 87–88

  verbal vs. nonverbal, 83–84, 88, 106

  in virtual contexts (conference calls and email), 102–4, 200

  Conchie, Barry, 148

  confidence

  courage over, xv, 2–3, 16–22, 27–28, 223

  feeling bad about lack of, 183

  inconsistent feelings of, 2–3, 16, 18–21

  as inner strength, 16

  instilling confidence in others, 24, 193

  myth of, 2–3, 15–16, 223

  needing more, 19–20

  planning for development of, 21–22

  as strength of belief, 17–18

  in your message, 85, 104–5

  confirmation bias, 40–42, 55, 235n8

  conflict, 131, 215–18

  Confucius, 128

  Congleton, Christina, 138

  connection over charisma, 27, 29, 33–55

  charisma, defined, 39

  charisma, myth of, 3, 38–46

  and confirmation bias, 40–42, 55

  emotions as influencing decisions, 37–38

  and expertise as a trap, 43–44

  and feeling better in “real life,” 53–54

  and generosity of spirit, 35–38

  intentionality in connecting, 34

  lack of time for connecting, 42–43

  making others feel comfortable, 33

  by moving toward vs. away from away from people, 49–50

  nonverbal messages, 50–51

  overview, 33–35

  practices for connection, 54–55

  and silent messages of value, 46–52, 235n13

  “space in the middle” conversations, 44–46

  consulting, 193–94, 196, 200

  content, 58, 72–79, 81

  conversational flow, 75–76

  coping and wisdom, 132, 240n28

  courage

  in adapting your style, 171, 180

  behavioral integrity’s effects on, 21

  to change, 104–5

  in collaboration, 207

  vs. the comfort zone, 20–21, 147

  commitment to, 27

  definition/components of, 16–17

  developing, 18–22, 234n17

  over confidence, xv, 2–3, 16–22, 27–28, 223

  performance predicted by, 17

  practice for building, 18–19, 31

  Covey, Stephen: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 121

  credibility

  experience needed for, 24–26

  knowledge/expertise needed for, 22–24, 224–25

  and positions of power, 26–27

  self-doubt about, 22–27

  Creswell, David, 112

  critique, 172–79

  Cuddy, Amy, 83–84

  curiosity, 224

  broad, 120–22, 133

  and clarity, 79

  commitment to, 39, 120

  confirmation bias as hindering, 40–42

  as embracing the unknown, 39–40

  as motivation, 60–64

  over certainty, 27

  trait, 239n12

  David, Susan, 138

  defensiveness, 34, 216–17

  developmental relationships/mentors, 127–28, 134

  dominance, 7

  Driven (Lawrence and Nohria), 60–61

  drives, 60–61

  See also motivation

  Dubai Airports, 209–10

  Dweck, Carol, 138–39

  Eisenhardt, Kathleen, 166

  emotional agility, 138

  emotions
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br />   decisions influenced by, 37–38

  facial expressions used to interpret, 47

  fear of public speaking, 142–43

  and inspirational appeals, 189–91

  positive emotional attractor (PEA), 154–55

  vs. reason, 37–38

  empathy, 36, 48, 200–201, 219

  exchange, 189

  executive functioning, 52

  expertise

  vs. collective knowledge, 24

  credibility based on, 22–24, 224–25

  as a trap, 43–44

  facial expressions, 47

  Farb, Norman, 144

  Farquhar, Graham, 107

  favors, 188–89

  feedback, 100–101, 106

  Flippen, Flip, 100–101

  Galbraith, Jay, 211

  Gardner, Heidi K., 208

  generosity of spirit, 35–38

  gratitude, 141, 156

  gravitas

  adverse, 6–8, 28, 46, 50, 140, 161

  authentic, meaning of, 6

  authentic vs. surface, 50, 107

  charisma required for, myth of, 3, 224

  confidence required for, myth of, 2–3, 15–16, 223

  defined, xiv–xv, 4–5

  desire for, xi–xiii

  feeling undeserving of (see credibility)

  as a gift, myth of, 2–3, 223

  obstacles to (see gremlins)

  potential for developing, 3–4

  practices for building, 31

  respect as a sign of, 23

  shared, 205–6

  trust as a sign of, 23

  truths about, 28–30

  as the value you bring, 5–6, 224

  virtual, 102–4, 106, 200–202

  gremlins, 135–56

  calming yourself, 145–47

  current-experience exercise, 144

 

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