“A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.”
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
Post-Prime Ministerial
Source: The Harvard Business Review (1 November 1986)
“Nobody has failed upward as consistently and spectacularly as the ostensible leader of the free world.”
Source: Too Much and Never Enough (2020), Ch. 14 A Civil Servant in Public Housing, p. 197.
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