CHAPTER 10
Leading at the Point of Goodness
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.—Theodore Roosevelt
Where Good Leadership Starts
Leadership, as a topic, can be perplexing. As a leader, you are expected to be bold and calculated, passionate and reasonable, rational and emotional, driven and patient, principled and flexible, competitive and cooperative, strategic and tactical, and yes, confident and humble. Faced with all of these often conflicting factors, it’s enough to make you scratch your head and wonder, Where on earth do I start?
In my work with emerging leaders, I hear the question a lot. New leaders, especially, are flummoxed by all the divergent advice they get about ...
Get A Leadership Kick in the Ass now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
