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BURDEN by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Leading Quietly ()

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Perseus Book Group

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BURDEN by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

“Something important is missing from most stories of heroic leadership. Its absence simplifies these accounts and makes them more vivid and powerful, but it does so at the cost of realism and relevance.

Abraham Lincoln did not have legal experts vet drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation. To continue her treatment of Helen Keller, Ann Sullivan had to convince Keller’s family that the effort was worthwhile, but she didn’t have to negotiate third-party reimbursement from an insurance company. The familiar stories of moral leadership are powerful partly because they are pared to the basics. None of the everyday complexities of modern life encumbers their powerful examples of courage, high ideals, and self-sacrifice. But unlike the heroes in these stories, we are encumbered.”

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