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Leadership and Self-Deception, 3rd Edition
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Leadership and Self-Deception, 3rd Edition

by The Institute Institute
September 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 31m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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23 Birth of a Leader

“Carol and I left Arizona the following night on the red-eye,” Lou said. “We’d planned to spend a few days of R&R in San Diego before going home, but our plans had all changed. I’d heard that Kate would be starting her new job in the Bay Area in just a few days. I desperately hoped that I could catch her before she left. I needed to deliver something to her,” he said, looking past me out the window again. “I needed to take her a ladder.”

“A ladder?” I asked.

“Yes, a ladder. One of the last things I did to Kate before she left,” he recalled, “was demand that a ladder be removed from her sales area. Her department had decided to use the ladder as a visual aid in promoting some sales goals. I thought it was a stupid idea and ...

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ISBN: 9781523097821