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During the week of June 3, I wrote five posts in five days centered on “The Leadership Tonic Scale”. I defined five types of leadership styles found in organizations today: The Moronic Leader The Ironic Leader The Platonic Leader The Iconic Leader The Harmonic Leader You can download the entire series as a singular PDF document. Download PDF Version of The Leadership Tonic Scale Thanks for visiting, downloading and/or reading. cheers dp The Leadership Tonic Scale by Dan Pontefract 1,264 total views, 5 views today

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The Leadership Tonic Scale identifies and defines five types of leadership styles found in today’s organization. This is the fifth of those five types.  The Harmonic Leader In my book Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization I highlight a scenario I call “Crossing the Leadership Chasm” where a leader must successfully open herself up to the team/organization and the team/organization has to open themselves up to the leader. If this occurs — where both sides are operating in an open and thus harmonious manner — we can define her as a Harmonic Leader. That is, there is harmony between all players. In the Spring of 2013 something very interesting occurred. After a four-year absence (and retirement) A.G. Lafley returned to the post of

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The Leadership Tonic Scale identifies and defines five types of leadership styles found in today’s organization. This is the fourth of those five types. Come back and visit each day during the week of June 3, 2013 to find out the next leadership type as depicted in the Leadership Tonic Scale. The Iconic Leader The Iconic Leader is a gem, and one notch away from our final leader definition on the Leadership Tonic Scale. What is an icon? In this case we’re not referring to religious paintings as it was first defined. Typically in our modern day we think of icons as those who have demonstrated excellence over a period of time. There are sporting icons, author icons, acting icons … and of course there

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The Leadership Tonic Scale identifies and defines five types of leadership styles found in today’s organization. This is the third of those five types. Come back and visit each day during the week of June 3, 2013 to find out the next leadership type as depicted in the Leadership Tonic Scale. The Platonic Leader I know, your first thought is, “wait … shouldn’t all leaders behave in platonic ways otherwise HR gets overburdened with harassment complaints and Finance has to start cutting an inordinate number of severance cheques?” Well ya, but my definition of a Platonic Leader is not about sex in the office. It’s about those leaders who are in fact pretty successful in their role but they shy away from — you might

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