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… What is the best leadership role you’ve held? What did it teach you?

I coached youth soccer many years ago. We had autonomy to manage, guide and train A LOT of young people. It taught me an important leadership lesson early: there can be negative consequences to decisions we make, even when said decisions are the right ones. At the end of that summer, I wrote what I still think was a courageous, if naive, letter to the director

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