Strong leaders are low visibility. If you're too visible, whether you look strong or weak, you're weak. Visibility is for performers.
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Don't confuse *effective* visibility with *high* visibility. Steve Jobs did big stage stuff 1-2 times a yr. Rest of the year he...ran Apple
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This is the nuance I was getting at. Effective visibility should be part of loop and for so those being led to witness/measure.
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. yup, from the pov of a Jobs/Buffet, big PR events are only a few % of their time. For outsiders, it is larger than life
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. They realize that the impact of what they say is a function of invisible power they wield the *rest* of the year
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Amen. This is what prompted my post in the first place. Juxtaposition of leadership is nuanced.
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