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The Character of Organizations (p.116), Davies-Black Publishing 2000
Most people would agree that Lee Iacocca, Joan of Arc, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Margaret Thatcher were all strong leaders. With some ingenuity, we could extract a list of common traits they shared — although the more you know about any of them as an individual, the more doubts you are sure to have about the list. The irony is that the one thing that they undeniably have in common will not even be on the list — that is, that each was the right person to lead a particular organization, society, or movement at that particular time.
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