“The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.”

Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 138

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