Rob Asghar

“When you become a leader, every circumstance you face will be one that tends to overinflate your ego and set you up for failure.”
― Rob Asghar, Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul

“As a leader, you have to have an almost infinite love for your organization or your cause to be able to find advisers who won’t simply parrot your views. The parroting isn’t necessarily a consequence of their selfishness or their desire for self-preservation. It’s because of the “loyalty bind,” which gives them an exaggerated view of your effectiveness.”
― Rob Asghar, Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul

“The Single Biggest Reason Talented People Fail Many gifted, intelligent, charming, decent, charitable and hard-working people fail. One should go so far as to say that most such people fall short of their dreams or at least their potential, because of one reason: They failed to identify in themselves an Achilles’ heel that was common knowledge to other people.”
― Rob Asghar, Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul