What most leadership advice gets wrong

Sean Hanrahan
5 min readMay 8, 2019

“Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities” Jocko Willink

Much of the current leadership advice reads like a check-list of the qualities required to be a good leader. A good leader is: collaborative, strategic, empathetic, transparent. The list goes on. If only it…

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Sean Hanrahan

Aspiring stoic with an interest in leadership, history, and decision-making. In my day job I lead a infrastructure planning department for a water utility