The prevalence of these three myths is hardly revelatory, and academic theorists have been suggesting elements of them for decades. But somehow their existence is ignored, and discussion of them is confined to the kinds of literature that do not make for light reading. Volume after volume, and study after study, have tried to steer us away from individual leader traits and toward relationships among networks of followers. And yet there remains a wide gap between how we think of leadership and how it actually works. Why is this? It was in hindsight, after we finished writing most of this book,
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