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#160 TKP Insights: Leadership

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Leadership - I'm Not Going to Be a Bystander

I don't know if you can teach leadership, but I'm pretty sure you can learn it. Embracing the idea of seeing what has to be done and then exercising the art of getting people to want to join you in getting it done is key. One of the great four-star general officers who really had a profound impact on him when he ventured off to West Point told me his story. He was worried about partway through his career that he just wasn't being promoted fast enough; one day he woke up and said: "I'm going to take care of my people"

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