Smart Business – “Character Counts”

In this article we discuss the connection between being and doing.

“Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are,” writes Jim Collins, in a foreword to the book, “Hesselbein on Leadership,” by Frances Hesselbein.

Seth Godin offers a different perspective: “Authenticity, for me, is doing what you promise, not being who you are,” Godin says. “That’s because ‘being’ is too amorphous and we are notoriously bad at judging that.”