2Law of Mastery

DOI: 10.4324/9781003260714-4

What does mastery of leadership mean to you? Look, if you want to win the leadership game, you have to be a master at the game. To different people, it is mastery of other things: mastery of the skill, mastery of strategic planning, mastery of consistent achievements. When I think about mastery, I remember there’s a story about the famous artist, Picasso which I read many years back.

A woman came up to him and asked him to sketch something on a piece of paper. He sketched it and gave it back to her, saying: ‘That will cost you $10,000.’ She was astounded. ‘You took just five minutes to do the sketch,’ she said. Isn’t $10,000 a lot for five minutes of work?

‘The sketch may have taken me five minutes, ...

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