In his book Fifth Wave Leadership: The Internal Frontier (www.fifthwaveleadership.com), Morris Shechtman provides some surprising perspectives on leadership, including:

• Teamwork doesn’t grow out of agreement, but rather out of conflict.
• If you don’t give feedback, people always expect the worst.
• If you avoid conflict, you’ll diminish your credibility.
• You don’t always have to give people answers. What they really want is responsiveness.
• Organizations don’t need charismatic leaders. They need charismatic cultures.
• Leadership is managing conflict.
• Being judgmental isn’t necessarily bad. People who aren’t judgmental are people who don’t care.
• Anger is an important ingredient in success.
• Relationships are inevitably disappointing.
• Disappointment sets the stage for future progress.
• Change creates pain but is preferable to the absence of change.
• Good leaders have unbending values.
• Revealing undisclosed truths can be therapeutic.

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From Accounting Office Management & Administration Report, September 2006, p. 2. For subscription information contact Institute of Management & Administration, Inc., 3 Park Avenue, 30th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5902. One-year subscription $349. 212-244-0360, [email protected].