Open Leadership: Post #9 - Growing Open Leaders

Growing and nurturing open leaders: We know that good leaders have certain universal traits like good listening habits. However, open leaders also need to have a special set of traits, even technical orientation, in order to be open to all important organizational stakeholders, both internal and external. Li does a nice job comparing traditional vs. open leadership traits on p. 213 (Figure 8.1, How Open Leadership Differs from Traditional Leadership).