If The Shoe Fits: Management Wisdom From John Buchan
by KG Charles-Harris
A Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here.
As you all know, startups are 80+ hour weeks and pre-launch adds at least 10 hours.
However, I wanted to share John Buchan’s words (he was an historian and Canadian politician), because it’s the kind of thing that can easily fall through the cracks when you’re living with intense startup pressure.
But it shouldn’t.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
It’s what we, as founders, owe to those who dare to take the trip with us.
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