The Leadership Mystique: Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise, Second Edition

Preface

	The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
	--THALES

	I’ve learned one thing – people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.
	--ANDY CAPP

	You can observe a lot by just watching.
	--YOGI BERRA

I would like to begin this book on leadership with an anecdote, one that’s most likely apocryphal. It’s about Wilfred Bion, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has greatly influenced my thinking. During World War I, Bion was a tank commander. For those of you who have never been in a tank, it’s a very small “working environment” indeed. Bion learned a considerable amount about small-group behavior while serving in such a machine. One world war later, when he was the director of a mental hospital dealing with people suffering ...