Bruce Springsteen, Artful Leadership, and What Rock Star Bosses Do
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Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, Born to Run, is a textbook on a virtue that the best managers have and the best leaders spread: resilient hope. The kind of hope borne of staring at the truth — especially the truth of loss and fear — without losing faith. A hope that takes you through hardship, not away from it. The book offers three lessons on cultivating this kind of hope. The author writes that from Springsteen he learned: to hold people’s attention, serve their imagination, let purpose find your craft; love will make you better, reflection will make you last.
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