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You Don’t Need a Cause to Do What’s Right
You can talk the talk and even walk the walk but it takes far more courage and strength to do the right thing in spite of personal risk.
Steve Tobak is a management consultant, columnist, former senior executive, and author of Real Leaders Don't Follow: Being Extraordinary in the Age of the Entrepreneur (Entrepreneur Press, October 2015). Tobak runs Silicon Valley-based Invisor Consulting and blogs at stevetobak.com, where you can contact him and learn more.
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