• Connection power enables leaders to build networks and coalitions that are helpful to the goals of the group.
• The leader build and strengthen “connections” with influential or important persons inside or outside the organization.
• Who the leader knows is as important as what s/he knows.
• Connection power makes other people to follow the leader with an aim of getting the favour or avoiding disfavour of the powerful connection.

Listen to the video above and study the readings given on this page. Focusing on a named institutional leader, explain how he/she exercises connection power.

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