Strong leaders are low visibility. If you're too visible, whether you look strong or weak, you're weak. Visibility is for performers.
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does this take into account internal & external visibility intention or strategy/personality and culture of org/kind of visibility?
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Yup. Visibility is the weakest way to get anything done. If you resort to it, whatever your intentions, it's weak.
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so if we reverse engineer this from function/effectiveness metrics, visibility can only get in the way of critical path?
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not necessarily, it's the weakest way, but if its your only way and you know what you're doing, it can work

