“In a soon-to-be-published biography and remembrance of the late Marvin Bower, the high priest of McKinsey & Co., there’s a wonderful memo that should be tacked on the wall of every leader everywhere. Bower writes of admiring ‘first-class brains’ and ‘good citizens in communities’ but also of despising and abhoring (his words) ‘toadies who suck up to their bosses’ and ‘buck-passers and people who don’t tell the truth.’”

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