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I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Margaret Heffernan

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Margaret Heffernan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
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Texas
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One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
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