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A leader who wants the team to question ideas, even the leader's, instead of being "yes" people shows what?

Intellectual stimulation, making your people think.

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  1. Intellectual stimulation ✔
  2. Idealized influence
  3. Coercive power

Why: Intellectual stimulation means challenging the team to think. These leaders welcome questions about old beliefs, including their own, so everyone keeps learning.

Huh, didn't know that: A "yes man" agrees with everything the leader says, even when they know the leader is wrong.

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Why did the leader want a few "no" people? The "yes" people kept agreeing to disagree.
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Answer: Intellectual stimulation. Intellectual stimulation means challenging the team to think. These leaders welcome questions about old beliefs, including their own, so everyone keeps learning.

  1. Learn to Lead, Volume 2, Chapter 7 (Civil Air Patrol) www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/Vol2LetterLowFinal_8BDFDB373E830.pdf
    encourage the team members to challenge their own beliefs as well as the leader's and the organization's as a whole.
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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