What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason. (Robert Harris (novelist))

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason.

Robert Harris (novelist)

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