This Veterans Day, I see a nation in desperate need of humble leadership that puts ego and self-interest aside.
More than 40 years have passed since the summer day I said goodbye to my parents, boarded a bus with my fellow plebes and began cadet basic training at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point . Little did I know that the leadership lessons I would learn as a cadet would sustain me throughout my adult life, from my service as an Army officer to my career as a trial lawyer and my role as chair of one of the largest law firms in the world.
That is, I had to demonstrate respect and willingness to know them as individuals, to communicate the message I learned in Beast Barracks — that each of them was as important as the next one — and that I might be their assigned leader, but I was also their equal, their true peer in a sense. That would include admitting when I was wrong and, if I did not know something, to admit that, too. This wasn’t just a strategy. It was my governing belief. People can tell if you care about them.
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