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Human First, Leader Second
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Human First, Leader Second

by Massimo Backus
September 2024
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 4m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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1 » THE TWO JOBS Take Off Your Leadership Costume

Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or squash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.

MARK MANSON, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

“Mass, you’re the best facilitator we’ve ever seen.” As the head of global leadership development at Slalom Consulting, an international business and technology consulting firm, I traveled across the United States, collaborating with some of the brightest leaders in our organization. Many ...

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ISBN: 9781523007073