• A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
    • If one is not prepared to make a solitary decision at a “critical moment,” he or she is not a leader.
  • The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
    • The leader’s job is to lead the group from where they are now to where they have never been.
  • It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
    • The responsibility of an expert is to demonstrate his or her capabilities in a field with which he or she is familiar, and the role of a leader is to push the boundaries of his or her experience.

Henry A. Kissinger

Leverage memo

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