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What Great Leaders Have That Good Leaders Don't (inc.com)
2 points by dsr12 on Nov 26, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> Never leave anyone behind

I've got a mix feelings about this. I've stumpled on couple of cases where this would have been the "right thing" to do. Basically there was one person on the team who really didn't come along with the rest of the team. To top of this, the team also had some preassure from the management :) The combination caused heated conversations and then it escalated to a point that no one talked to the one person. Fast forward a year or so, couple of guys left the team before management decided to transfer the one person to


I disagree with the idea of loyalty as a trait which makes people good leaders. It's what makes people good people.

You could easily change the examples provided and change 'leader' to 'employee' or 'team member', and the outcome would be the same.




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