The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership
Categories: Business & Money
Steven Sample, the former president of the University of Southern California, offers a set of unconventional ideas about leadership. He recommends thinking gray, which means withholding judgment until it is truly needed, along with listening artfully, reading the classics rather than current fads and delegating decisions to others. Sample draws on his experience running universities and on writers such as Machiavelli to explain how leaders can think independently and act wisely.
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- Shane Parrish: “In Steven Sample’s excellent book, The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, he talks about the law of a higher good, which he took from Machiavelli’s The Prince. ”