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Randall Stutman on Becoming a Life-Long Student of Leadership | Don't Let This Pass You By

The Daily Stoic

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You've Got to Give Up Power to Maintain Power

The key stoic virtue, i would say, is restraint. The leader has power but tries to get the other person to do the thing under their own power. Power is a really interesting thing, that if you hold it too closely, you actually have less of it. And if you act too powerfully, the only thing that works is to act more powerfully next time.

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