John Amaechi: preference

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…How about the Jesuit high school you went to in Toledo? Although you’re British, you went in Toledo. Right? Our Toledo. How were they at leadership? I don’t know that my mind was oriented towards it to notice it. What I did notice was if there’s something that they had, it was this constant rhetoric towards the tenets of leadership. I know they were Jesuit tenets, but they were talking about things like, “Being a man for others.” We were an all-boys school. That was the constant mantra being repeated, and it did seem like many of the people there, teachers, educators, believed that mantra to be true. I think there’s a selflessness part of being a leader that’s important if you want to be sustainably high performing, but I’m not sure that I’ve ever used the man for others terminology myself. There’s a stereotype that overall people who work in consulting are not very good at leadership, that they’re a bit bureaucratized. Do you think that’s true? And if so, why did that happen?…

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