CHAPTER 8
Legacies and the Responsibilities of Leadership
Your Duty to Enable the Legacies of Others
THE BULK OF THIS BOOK is devoted to helping senior managers think through the legacies they want to create in the context of their work and their natural roles. The emphasis is largely personal, focusing on aligning the kinds of legacies you are seeding with the kinds of legacies you want to seed. We’ve talked about how legacy thinking—the process of trying to build legacies proactively, as opposed to reflecting on them after the fact—can be a useful tool to help you factor your own personal satisfaction, strengths, and weaknesses into the decisions you make at work, to the benefit of the organization.
We’ve drawn an analogy between a leadership ...
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