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CEOs Need Courage

Harvard Business Review

To resist doing what everyone else is doing or what you are expected to do requires courage. Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover.

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Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Leaders need to break through this resistance and may need to press Criticizers for help.