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James MacGregor Burns

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

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Leadership without a moral foundation loses its deeper purpose and becomes just about organizing tasks. Similarly, politics without ethical considerations turns into a set of skills used only for manipulation or control.

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