Chapter 13. Developing the Right Leadership Stuff

"I can't say this in public—for sure not to my board—but to tell you the truth, I don't know what the hell we can do. Talk about no light at the end of the tunnel—I don't even know how to find the tunnel."—Small business owner

How do you acquire the skills, wisdom, and perspective necessary to perform a leadership role in this perplexing new world? How do you develop "the right stuff"? When thinking about this question, I always remember the profoundly simple answer a wizened professional writer (from whom I took a workshop years ago) gave to a question regarding how to be a relevant author. ...

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