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Blinded by Success

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Great leaders produce great successes, but great successes do not necessarily produce great leaders. Take it from Bill Gates, who wrote in The Road Ahead, “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

 

Consider the story of a remarkably successful management consultant—let’s call him Roger. After earning a reputation for overseeing large organizational change initiatives, Roger was recruited by an operating company that

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