TRUST & CROSS-CULTURAL LDRSHP

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Leadership works through the cultivation of trust between leaders and the people they lead. Leaders make trade-offs in providing direction ('coercive control') versus cultivating trust-based commitment ('enabling control'). Recently, there has emerged the concept of 'soft power,' which is the power to get others to want what you want through their attraction to your culture. Leaders often face the challenge of fostering trust across diverse cultures, values, and beliefs. This course draws on philosophy, political science, organizational behavior, sociology and psychology to study the conditions that foster trust within and across societies, and between leaders, the institutions of governance and the governed. 001314