19 December 1994 Last year, one of the most popular courses at Harvard was the one that taught “leadership”. I failed to find out how this skill was studied and practiced, not so much because of my aversion to the role of leader, but because the whole thing reminded me of the one-time ambitions of the children here to “study […]

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