Why do all the leadership books fail to make me a leader?
Because they describe symptoms and call it the disease. I’ve read my share of leadership books, chasing something I thought was called leadership, and what they all do is the same thing. They list the behaviors of leaders, the attitudes, the way someone sits and looks a person in the eye, and then they expect that describing those traits will somehow hand them to you. But symptoms aren’t causation. Sneezes don’t cause colds. A rhinovirus does, and the sneeze is just the effect showing up. Every one of those books skips the actual infection, the leadership bug itself, and only photographs the people who already caught it. That’s why you can read ten of them and feel no different. Stop studying the symptoms of leaders. The thing you’re after isn’t on the page describing what leaders look like.
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