Posted on 08/11/2010 5:59:25 AM PDT by Stoutcat
...[S]he’s right. While she’s discussing the corporate world, it’s equally true — perhaps even more so — in the world of politics. Surely it takes a robust ego for anyone to think she’s got the stuff it takes to lead a school committee or town, much less a state or even the entire nation: and not just lead it, but take it in the right direction, all the while avoiding the dizzying emoluments of the culture of greed, graft, bribery, quid-pro-quo, and you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours.
Not only that, but you’ve got to have the apparently not-so-common sense to understand that, as China so eloquently put it, you’re “not terribly unique and can be replaced at any time.” And of course, that’s where the problems start...
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This is like a mystery thread, I wonder what it is about.
Ego, humility, and leadership.
Somehow that didn’t clear up the mystery.
How about this: Ego, humility, and leadership; and why our leaders seem to hang on to the ego and lose the humility.
Well, I still have no idea what this thread is about, and I’m not going to the link to investigate what ever it is that you won’t post.
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