Sublime

Having been aggressive to the point of recklessness when advocating a 1942 cross-Channel attack, Marshall was now consumed with caution.

At first I did not recognize that when you are in a position of authority you cannot debate freely with people in your organization without some of them believing that they may endanger their careers if they disagree with you too vigorously. Perhaps they are right—I like to think not in my case, but self-deception is easy. People who agree with you

As Moses obtained power, therefore, the traits symptomatic of his arrogance became steadily more noticeable. The pattern’s hue darkened.

So don’t automatically buy into advice from leaders. It could be accurate, but more likely it is just self-serving. People distort reality.

Leaders who appear to be following opinion may in fact be creating it.53 Whether or not one considers this leadership or manipulation, it undermines claims to popular control.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to

A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice. Fearlessness is courage taken to its extreme.

Charisma is not generally associated with a true leader, in my opinion. It is more associated with the opposite: the corporate politician, who is what is the matter with our country. There are too many of this type in our corner offices.

It may be added that with this effort came a not quite Christlike tendency to beat down not only the opinion itself but those who held it.