>> "You don't manage people. You manage things - people you lead" Adm. Grace Hopper
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>I wish more people who were in an endowed position to lead (naturally having the abilities rather than usurping some degree of undeserved authority) both recognized, understood, and then applied this thinking. :-) Too many people are too afraid to lead for fear or rejection, ridicule or other reasons which do not tie back to base abilities.

I have a caveat to the above which is "Lead, follow, or get out of the way. If you're not doing one of the first two, you're part of the problem". People who worked for/with me learned that it was a bad thing when I'd look at them and say "Quit being part of the problem!"