Principles at work

This is an older entry once clipped from a blog that I frequent, but it's central to how I think about my worklife:

Forget worrying all those smart leadership techniques until you have developed the judgment, understanding, insight, trust, wisdom, and compassion necessary to become a leader. Until you do, giving you good techniques is like arming a blind person with a machine gun and telling him or her to go into your yard and shoot some rabbits. In place of courses to teach techniques, what about some time devoted to:

*learning how to think straight;
*how to spot false conclusions and faulty notions of causality;
*how to understand the rights and wrongs of evidence;
*and how to apply civilized values to day-to-day business situations?

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