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| March 21, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Byline: SANDY COHEN

Popular business media outlets and the public, by and large, have been infatuated with the chief executive who has drunk from the Holy Grail of heroic leadership.

But there may be signs the era of the heroic CEO is coming to an end. To be sure, a single person can make a difference at critical times, but even heroic leaders such as Jack Welch, onetime chief executive of General Electric, emphasize the power of team leadership in action.

However, there are lessons to be learned from the rise of the heroic CEO. The biggest of those is how to avoid the ego trap, according to Robert Rogers, president of human resource consulting firm Development Dimension International. While leaders need strong egos, too big a one can hurt them. Chief executives with…

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