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Occasional hiker, freelance writer, part-time teacher, and founder/editor of BizNewsPA, a daily email digest of business news for leaders in Central PA.
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The cost of consensus

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By Joel Berg
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Column by Brandon Rogers There is a curious point in every leader’s journey when the room slowly becomes louder than the conviction that first led them there. It rarely happens all at once. Leadership has a way of attracting exceptionally intelligent people … partners whose perspectives sharpen our own, employees whose observations deserve thoughtful consideration, advisers whose experience protects us from blind spots we might never have discovered alone.
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What great leaders notice first

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By Joel Berg
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Column by Brandon Rogers The longer someone leads, the less impressed they become with raw talent alone. Experience has a way of teaching leaders that the rarest people in a room are not always the loudest, the fastest, or even the most outwardly confident. Over time, truly seasoned leaders begin developing a different instinct entirely — an almost immediate sensitivity to the invisible strengths sitting quietly inside other people.
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The signature you leave behind

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By Joel Berg
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Column by Brandon Rogers “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.“ Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote those words as both warning and invitation. Imitation, he believed, was not merely a lack of originality; it was a surrender of the mind itself. When a person abandons the responsibility to think independently, mediocrity becomes inevitable. Yet leadership — the kind that actually shapes people — is not born from imitation.
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