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This is a Post on Leadership

LDRLB

The opening is a story about a childhood memory I’ve grossly exaggerated in order to tailor it to fit a post on leadership. Next I make the jump from childhood story to talking about some motivational element that really has more to do with personal development than leadership. Leadership satire'

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Lessons From the Military: Your Risk is My Risk, Too

Harvard Business Review

That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership. Leading people in risky environments is not a game with a reset button, a golden parachute, or a bailout clause. Risk has faces and names.