Successful People Make The Worst Leaders

Being well-adjusted always seems like a good quality until you really think about what it entails. I’d rather have a leader with the thirst to fix something that’s wrong than a leader with the instinct to go with the flow.

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Rollie Williams

Jan 21, 2013

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