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 [...]