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Good Authority vs. Bad Authority: Can You Spot the Difference?

As a leader, you are constantly sending messages to your employees. Through your words, you can build them up and propel them to achieve great things; alternately, you can tear them down and sabotage their success. Gervase Bushe draws out the differences between good and bad authority. Bad authority is preoccupied with its own importance. Good authority is concerned with the good of others. Bushe delineated:
Good Authority
Seeks adoration and being the center of attention
Serves the people
Has a vision of the great society, organization, etc.
Takes responsibility
Steps aside when it is appropriate to do so
Bad Authority
Adores others and makes them the center of attention
Self-serving
Has a vision of own greatness
Blames others
Holds onto power
Read the rest of his insights here.