Leaders: Mental Images or Real People?

Leadership Communications

Great leaders, especially in large organizations, aren’t really people. They’re mental images.

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. Employees create pictures of what leaders seem to be, based on the bosses’ accumulated emails, tweets, speeches, and videos, plus whatever tidbits are picked up here and there. Learn ways to improve your leadership communications.

Read the article: Harvard Business Review »