The second symptom of power poisoning is the belief…
The second symptom of power poisoning is the belief that, because you are powerful and a connected insider, you automatically know everything that matters about your organization. Academ-ics call this the fallacy of centrality.
— from Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business) · Friction Project : How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Har
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That thinking ignores every other thing that makes a firm great. Power has a poison in it too — the powerful insider starts believing he automatically knows everything that matters about his own organization, which is precisely when he stops. Confusing effective with good. A decision can be effective — it closes the sale, fills the seat — without being good. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)
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