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Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

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Simon Sinek
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 9
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Simon Oliver Sinek
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