One engineer, for example, who’d become a strong leader, reported that he’d been able to transcend the command-and-control, pacesetting engineering culture through a somewhat surprising venue for leadership development: his church. “My church group easily lent itself to people expressing feelings and opinions,” the engineer recalled. “Where, as an engineer, I usually felt the need to always have a logical flow, in the group I became more accepting of less structure. Over time, that acceptance worked its way into how I acted as a leader—less concerned with flow and content and more attuned to
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