Nine Habits That Make "Contagious" Leaders

Leadership which incents other people to be leaders is called "contagious leadership."

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the people around them.

John Hersey, in his book "Creating Contagious Leadership," http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Contagious-Leadership-John-Hersey/dp/097455930X describes nine required habits for inspiring a contagious leadership culture within a startup, as well as within other types of businesses, or even life in general. He and I believe that leaders have to make the overt decision to acquire these habits or skills, and don’t have to be born or trained into them:

Martin Zwilling

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