Webinar: Dare to Lead: Three Essential Rules of Project Leadership

Summary: Popular myths about the glory of leadership abound, and consequently, most of us aspire to be leaders. But what is true leadership, especially on complex endeavors. True leadership is not about you, it is not about glory, and sometimes it is not even about success. In this webinar, Dr. Wu will highlight the three essential rules of leadership that serve as foundation to many leadership practices.

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Leadership is not easy. Popular press tend to emphasize the wins, but what if after arduous journey, the project ultimate fails? Who bear the ultimate burden of that failure? Also, being a leadership requires sacrifice, often putting aside one’s goals and promote the goals of the team of followers. In this presentation, Dr. Wu distills leadership into three important rules:

Dare to lead – And potentially bear the burden of failure
Commit to a better future – And drive the team to a more favorable future state
Attract followers – And serve them to both attract and retain followers
The presentation also discusses five traits of effective leaderships, compares Management vs. Leadership, and provide multiple scenarios to clearly differentiate how weak and strong leader behave under stressful situations.