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How Seeking Buy-In Gets Misread as Being Indecisive

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Etienne de Bruin
Jun 04, 2025
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"Just Tell Us What You Want Us to Build!"

In a 2014 study by Clement Bell and colleagues, both participative leadership and directive leadership were found to have positive effects on organizational culture, but directive leadership made employees less adaptable.1 Along these lines, a 2018 study by Guiquan Li and colleagues found that directive leadership…

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