In my previous Harvard Business Review blog I have written about sales leadership being the toughest of the functional leadership roles.

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To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit.

FORBES: It's Time To Bring Back The General Manager

Like his technology, his leadership was both beautiful and functional.

FORBES: How Steve Jobs Reinvented Leadership.

Any skill-based team, built around real functional experts, requires strong, in-touch, self-confident leadership, and Amundsen exemplified these leadership attributes.

FORBES: South to the Pole: Leadership Wins the Race

Emotional Intelligence not only works to bring a team together as a more functional and effective unit, but also takes advantage of an often overlooked component to team leadership that will cause organizations deficient in it to crumble.

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