CHAPTER ELEVEN
Second Captain First Choose
YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT IN CHAPTER 10 I placed special emphasis on a number of people: friends; Charles, who coached the fictional Jeff Gardner; and Morgan Stanley’s John Mack. This emphasis was deliberate. We cannot escape the traps that snare us unless we have people who can help us find a way out. It is our network of support that allows us to muster the courage to confront our anxieties and be sufficiently open and honest.
The problem, of course, is that high-need-for-achievement professionals create an external portrayal of rugged individualists, being completely self-sufficient. Because of a variety of factors—the socialization process, the model created by leaders who came before them, the cultures ...
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