A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either—after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one’s own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster. No, Bugg, I won’t have anyone kissing my feet—’ ‘I’m relieved to hear that, master, since those feet have not known soap in a long, long time.’ ‘The body eventually resumes its own natural cleansing mechanisms, Bugg.’ ‘Like shedding?’ ‘Exactly. In any case, I was speaking of
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