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"Lady Gaga's Leadership Lesson"

This post was written by Nora Riva Bergman: "Lady Gaga knows how to get attention. Whether it's wearing a dress made out of meat or eyeglasses made out of burning cigarettes, she knows how to get attention. A recent article in Psychology Today, explains how "getting attention" is a critical element of leadership. It doesn't matter how good your ideas are, if no one notices them, nothing will happen.

So how do leaders get attention? Psychology Today suggests that the simple act of asking people questions, rather than telling people what to do, is a real attention-getter.

"In fact, the most effective approach is simply to ask questions. We can ignore directives, but questions force us to attend to them. In the corporate world, most of us are so used to being told what to do that when someone asks us what we think we should do, it stops our automatic processing in its tracks..."

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Source: Real Life Practice, 27 September 2010. © Real Life Practice, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).