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Centering
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his “competence.” Strength lies in improvisation.
— WALTER BENJAMIN
A book is a linear creature; pages march forward from the first to the final, demanding some measure of logic and order. A book also impels its author to adopt a reductionist mind-set; topics are separated into chapters which are further separated into sections. This book, for example, contains a set of chapters, each describing a leadership competency. The result of this linearity and reductionism may be the erroneous conclusion that each competency is truly a discrete phenomenon.
The reality of commitment is, however, ...
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