“Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.”

— Philip Selznick

Attributed to Selznick in: Kobi Yamada, ‎Dan Zadra, ‎Steve Potter (2003), Everyone Leads,

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