…a sense of history is essential to anyone who wants to be a leader, because history is both about people and about cause and effect. The American historian Samuel Eliot Morison liked to say that history teaches us how to behave—that is, what to do and what not to do in a variety of situations. History is the human story.

History also shows how the demands of leadership change from one era to another, from one culture to another.

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Original Source: Harvard Business Review