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Contrast of Side by Side Leadership® and Top-Down Leadership

 



Contrast of Side by Side Leadership® and Top-Down Leadership
Side by Side
Top-Down
Skill 1: Achieving Personal Visionary Goals

Striving for personal power and wealth.
Skill 2: Practicing Honesty and Fairness

Succeeding at any cost and losing trust.
Skill 3: Maintaining Objectivity

It's okay to lose one's temper.
Skill 4: Acquiring Knowledge

Only using what you learned in the past.
Skill 5: Sharing Knowledge

Hoarding knowledge.
Skill 6: Transforming Knowledge

Not leveraging knowledge.
Skill 7: Two-Way Listening

Leading by commanding and talking.
Skill 8: Mutual Contributing

Always maintaining superior status.
Skill 9: Connecting Visionary Goals

Promoting own goals.
Skill 10: Diverse Networking Only interacting with a few people who are similar to oneself.
Skill 11: Managing the Interface

Thinking only about one's own department.
Skill 12: Setting Team Goals

Focusing on own priorities.
Skill 13: Using Structured Team Skills

Not providing team training.
Skill 14: Coordinating Team Roles

Direction each person what work they must do.
Skill 15: Increasing Team Capacity

Having people do the same work day after day.
Skill 16: Identifying Opportunities and Threats

Only worrying about problems inside the organization.
Skill 17: Living Organizational Values

Financial success is all that is important.
Skill 18: Setting Organizational Visionary Goals.

No real vision and no organizational goals.
Skill 19: Creating New Strategies

Continuing to use the same products and services.
Skill 20: Creating a Flexible Organization Believing that all innovations and decisions should come from the top.



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