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leadership theories: overview  

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  • Human beings have always been keenly interested in leadership; from earliest times, philosophers and thinkers have constructed leadership theories and frameworks. In sixth- and fifth-century BCE China, Confucius sought laws of order between leaders and subordinates and wrote about them in the Analects. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Leadership Theories: Overview]

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