General Robert E. Lee, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.360
The Killer Angels (1974)
“And the first question for a leader is: "Who do we intend to be?" not “What are we going to do?””
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 61.
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