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Good leadership is hard to define.

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Scott D. Clary
Feb 28, 2021
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Good leadership is hard to define.

What is leadership?

Etymologically, the word itself comes from two Latin roots: “legere”, to choose, and “ducere”, to lead.

So leaders are those who ‘choose to lead.

But I think that it’s something that happens with good process — the kind of process where each person on the team trusts the rest, where the decision-making …

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