Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Harvard Business School
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Charismatic leaders inspire us all. But if we only focus on the heroes we put up on pedestals, we will miss the quiet leaders.
It is the unglamorous, in-the-trenches, quiet leadership that transforms organizations. As Albert Schweitzer said, "The sum of [small and obscure deeds] is a thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition."
Joseph Badaracco's Leading Quietly looks beyond the heroic model to the people in organizations who care about and solve the small problems. Their everyday efforts add up to make an organization, and the world, a better place. Whatever your industry, you need these quiet leaders. They work behind the scenes with modesty and restraint. They are realists, they invest political capital wisely, and they know how to craft a compromise. Use this program to explore the lessons that quiet leaders teach us.
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on strategy, general management, and business ethics in the School's MBA and executive programs.
Learning Goals
Professor Joseph Badaracco’s presentation and supporting materials are designed to help you:
- Picture the people in the middle of your organizational pyramid. Put aside the heroes on the pedestals for a moment.
- Look for the quiet leaders performing the unglamorous, in-the-trenches work that changes organizations.
- Identify how their actions fit the model of quiet leadership presented in this program.
- Emulate these leaders and find ways to reward them.
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