Thank you William.

What a spectacular set of similes: This post is brilliant reminder of how personal history seeps into our workday, like it or not. My wife and I have a saying: "Work your story, or your story will work you."

Character-based leaders take the time to find and disarm any landmines under their surfaces. This intentional pursuit protects followers from unintentional shrapnel.  It takes extreme empathy to prompt one to enter pain for another's sake. But that is just the sort of choice that authentic leaders make.

Tristan