Your goal in life must be to always move higher and higher up the food chain, where you alone control the direction of your enterprise and depend on no one.
You can’t have a one-size-fits-all mind-set when it comes to effective leadership. You need to tailor a specific approach to every single person on your team in order to get the most out of them.
The empire fell well before the invasion of the barbarians. It collapsed from the collective softness of its citizens’ minds and the turning of their back on reality.
