The Art of Commitment

Author: Yu Tao
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Using commitments to achieve brand-new incentives and constraints is an innovative direction in modern leadership practices, and it is an art for leaders. With commitments as a bridge, the transition will be made from soft constraints based on psychological contracts to hard constraints based on authority-responsibility contracts. In this transition, the subtlety of commitments lies in the artistic grasp and balance by leaders. The mission of a leader is to create and maintain a specific authority-responsibility bond among the stakeholders of the organization using artful commitments. Once you learn about commitments, you step onto a new level of leadership art.