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on asking whether you should really be CEO

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.11.12

A friend in Australia passed on an article in which a corporate board member spilled the beans about the mis-allocation of millions of dollars towards management consultants who provided little value. "If you can’t work out your own governance processes and your own culture yourself, you ought to be asking yourself should you be leading the company or should you be the CFO," he opined. The scathing quotes appear in Australian Financial Review.

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Selfish leaders increase risk by placing themselves first. It's a fundamental mistake to assume that what is good for us personally is mutually exclusive to what is good for everyone. That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership.

—Col. Eric G. Kail