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Transcending Emerging Barriers Through Patience

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This chapter aims to appraise the benefits of patience as a leadership skill that is fast becoming scarce in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Research shows that patience augurs inner peace and facilitates dealing with sufferings and stressors effectively, helps to pursue long-term goals persistently, and promotes overall well-being and flourishing. Psychologically speaking, patience acts as a modulating buffer between experience and expression of negative emotions and prevents interpersonal differences spiraling down to expression of anger and hatred. This chapter chronicles the contribution of different moral philosophers and spiritual writers besides reviewing some pertinent leadership literature pertaining to patience. It discusses various behavioral barriers in the smooth functioning of the organization that may be overcome with patience.

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Kumar, V., Dhiman, S. (2022). Transcending Emerging Barriers Through Patience. In: Marques, J. (eds) Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling Changes. Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67258-4_6

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