Sublime

the incremental leader enjoys and protects their cognitive capacity to create enduring solutions. They use their technical experience to help people solve their Layer 1 and 2 problems when needed because they have redesigned processes in support of that goal. This is beneficial because their intense attention is needed only on the novel portions of

elite mixture of intelligence, logic, and courage.

all warlords and warmongers were warriors themselves, and, with a few curious exceptions, societies were run by risk takers, not risk transferors. Prominent

Fearful leaders—that is, those who respond out of fear—are the worst leaders, period.